Category: assassination
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On this day in History, Charles Guiteau Was Put on Trial for the Assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. November 14, 1881
Image: Charles Julius Guiteau in 1881. (Public Domain) On this day in history, November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau was put on trial for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Charles Guiteau’s murder trial was one of the first held in which the defendant’s assertion of insanity was exposed to the modern legal test: whether…
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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated on this Day in History. October 31, 1984.
Image: Indira Gandhi in 1983. (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 31, 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:30 a.m. at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, both Sikhs, shot Gandhi as she walked from a neighboring bungalow to her office. Although the two attackers…
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Shaka, the originator of the Zulu Kingdom of Southern Africa, is Assassinated by His Two Half-Brothers, after Shaka’s Mental Illness Threatens the Survival of the Zulu Tribe. September 22, 1828.
Image: An artistic rendition of Shaka (artist unknown) On this day in history, Shaka, the originator of the Zulu Kingdom of southern Africa, is assassinated by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, after Shaka’s mental illness threatens the survival of the Zulu tribe. When Shaka became chief of the Zulus in 1816, the tribe totaled…
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President William McKinley is Shot and Injured at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. September 6, 1901.
Image: Leon Czolgosz shoots President McKinley with a revolver concealed under a cloth rag. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, President William McKinley is shaking hands and greeting visitors at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz walks up to him and fires two shots into his…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 