Assassinations
The 1900s were marked by several notable assassinations and assassination attempts:
- July 29, 1900 — King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
- March 6, 1901 — In Bremen, an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
- September 6, 1901 — American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
- June 16, 1904 — Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- February 1, 1908 - Carlos I of Portugal is assassinated in Lisbon, Portugal.
- October 26, 1909 — Korean nationalist An Jung-geun assassinates Ito Hirobumi, a former Prime Minister of Japan, in Harbin, China, in protest of the Japanese annexation of Korea.
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