There is a biography called "Biography of the Assassins" in Ma Qian's "Historical Records" of Taishi Company, which writes the stories of five assassins: Cao Mo, Zhuan Zhu, Yu Rang, Nie Zheng, and Jing Ke. Because of this, these assassins have gone down in history. In modern history, there are also many assassins who have left their names in the world for assassinating important people, and this article will take a look at 8 famous assassins in modern history.
1. Ahn Jung-root
Success embroidery Japan Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito
Ahn Joong-geun, a native of North Korea and an independence activist, grew up in a time when North Korea's survival was at stake, and when he grew up, he threw himself into the national salvation movement. After the Russo-Japanese War in 1940, he actively opposed Japanese aggression and participated in the Volunteer Movement in 1907, but failed to fight against the Japanese army. On October 26, 1909, Ahn Shigeun successfully assassinated the former Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, the culprit of the invasion of Korea, in Harbin, China, and was arrested on the spot. The District Court of the Kanto Prefecture of Japan sentenced An Shigegen to death by hanging. The following year, he was inaugurated in Lushun. He was called a "patriotic martyr" and a "righteous man" by North and South Korea, respectively. On January 19, 2014, the Memorial Hall opened in Harbin, China.
Ahn Jung-geun
2, Yoon Bong-gil
Assassinated General Yoshinori Shirakawa, commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army of the Japanese invasion of China.
Yoon Bong-gil, who was also a Korean, witnessed the brutal rule of the Japanese colonizers over Korea as a child, and developed a national consciousness of anti-Japanese revenge. At the age of 17, he participated in the Patriotic Enlightenment. In 1930, he went to Northeast China to participate in the independence activities of the Korean diaspora and carry out the struggle against Japan and the restoration of the country. After the 128 Incident in 1932, Yin Fengji joined China's War of Resistance Against Japan, and on April 29, Yin Fengji was ordered to carry a bomb and infiltrate the Japanese invading army to celebrate the Japanese Tianchang Festival in Hongkou Park to celebrate the "Songhu War Victory Conference". He was killed on the spot, Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Japanese Shanghai Resident People's League, Sadaji Kawa, commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army of the Japanese Invasion of China, General Yoshinori Shirakawa was seriously wounded to death, and Japanese Minister to China Shigemitsu Aoi and other dignitaries were all injured. Yoon Bong-gil was arrested on the spot, secretly escorted to Japan, and killed at the end of the year.
Yoon Bong-gil
3. Hiroya Yamagami
Assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Toru Yamagami, who is also a former member of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, began working part-time after retiring from the Maritime Self-Defense Force, but resigned in May 2022 on the grounds of physical discomfort, and has not had a job or income since then. On July 8, Shinzo Abe was shot by Toru Yamagami while giving a speech on the street in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan, and died at the age of 67 after several hours of resuscitation.
4. Stauffenberg
The assassination of Hitler failed
Stauffenberg was a colonel in the German Army, and after Hitler came to power in 1933, the young Stauffenberg was also infected by the Nazis' National Socialism and Hitler's "charisma", and became a member of the SA against the weak Weimar Republic. During the Sudetenland crisis, Stauffenberg first came into contact with the "opposition" within the Reich army, and he was extremely disgusted by Hitler's arrogance and the Kristallnacht of November 9, 1938, which led him to oppose Hitler.
Stauffenberg
In 1944, Stauffenberg was again involved in the assassination of Hitler, and on July 20, Stauffenberg tried to blow him up while he was in a meeting with Mussolini. Stauffenberg was soon captured and executed.
5, Kim Jae-gyu
Assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee
Kim Jae-gyu and Park Chung-hee are fellow villagers, and the two are also students who graduated from the South Korean Army Non-commissioned Officer School at the same time, joined the army after graduation, and in 1964, when he was the commander of the 6th Division of the Army, he commanded the suppression of the June 3 incident, and won Park Chung-hee's greater trust. By 1979, Park Chung-hee had four confidants, and Kim Jae-gyu was one of them, but Kim Jae-gyu was at odds with Park Chung-hee's other confidant, Cha Ji-cheol, the head of the presidential guard of the Central Guard Office.
Kim Jae-gyu
Cha Ji-cheol belongs to the emerging figures, because he is favored by Park Chung-hee, he meddles in more and more fields, and later said bad things about Kim Jae-gyu in front of Park Chung-hee, which caused Kim Jae-gyu's dissatisfaction, and the resentment between the two became deeper and deeper, so Kim Jae-kyu shot and killed Cha Ji-cheol and Park Chung-hee at the dinner party on October 26. Kim Jae-gyu was soon arrested and executed by Chun Doo-hwan's government the following year at the age of 54.
6. Goldson
Assassination of Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation
Goldson was a fervent Hindu who, influenced by Shavagarh, attended the Hindu Assembly with the goal of reviving Hindu dominance and founded the "National Servants League". In 1944, he bought a newspaper, The Nation of India, and became its president, promoting political ideas against foreign Islam and other non-Hindu sects, and sparing no effort to promote violence and racial supremacy.
Goldson
In 1915, Gandhi returned to India from South Africa and soon became the de facto leader of the Congress Party, making "non-violent non-cooperation" the guiding ideology of the Congress Party, and began to run for India's independence. It was precisely because of the difference in views that in 1948 Goldson shot Gandhi, and he was arrested and hanged a year later along with his accomplice Abti.
7. Booth
Assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln
Booth was an American theater actor, during the American Civil War, Booth supported the South, he became a spy for the South, using his identity as an actor as a cover, he could travel around the United States without being troubled, and received fans everywhere, so he could send intelligence and much-needed medicine to the South. However, the Booth family, with the exception of Booth, all supported the North.
Booth
In 1965, near the end of the Civil War, Booth heard that Lincoln was going to Ford's Theatre that night, and he improvised to assassinate the president. So, after some preparation, Booth assassinated Lincoln in the theater, tripped over the flag in the process of escaping, and when he jumped onto the stage, he shouted, "This is what happens to tyrants." The audience was shocked, and soon after, Booth was shot dead by the police while fleeing.
8. Oswald
Assassination of US President John F. Kennedy
Oswald served in the U.S. Marine Corps in his early years, but his pro-Soviet leaning and withdrawn personality made him extremely unsociable in the military and he was a repeat offender. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy, accompanied by his wife Jacqueline and Texas Governor John Connelly, was driving through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, in an open-top car when he was shot by Oswald and died shortly thereafter, and Oswald was shot dead two days later.
Oswald
Brief summary:
These 8 assassins were all big shots. Either the president or the prime minister, at the lowest is a general. Among them, three Japanese were assassinated, two were American presidents, and Hitler, Gandhi and Park Chung-hee were also killed. These people were all influential figures in history at the time, but they were eventually assassinated.