1990s - Assassinations

Assassinations

The 1990s were marked by several notable assassinations and assassination attempts:

19 September 1990 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives.
21 May 1991 – In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.
7 August 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated.
23 May 1992 – Able to a violent explosion on Autostrada A29 (Italy) section between the' Punta Raisi Airport and Palermo, caused by the Mafia, causing the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, a hero in the fight against organized crime. Less than two months later, on 19 July, Falcone's co-worker and friend, magistrate Paolo Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in via D'Amelio, Palermo, in front of his mother's house. They were both named as heroes of the last 60 years in the November 2006 issue of Time Magazine.
29 June 1992 – A bodyguard assassinates President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria.
April 1993 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
1 May 1993 – A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
29 August 1995 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
4 November 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv by a radical Jewish militant who opposed the Oslo Accords.

. 31 March 1995 - Tejano pop singer Selena is shot by fan club president Yolanda Saldívar over financial problems and missing records. 2 weeks after death, Her birthday is named Selena Day in Texas.

2 October 1996 – The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.
15 July 1997 Gianni Versace was shot dead, aged 50, on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion as he returned from a morning walk on Ocean Drive. He was murdered by Andrew Cunanan, who used the same gun to commit suicide on a boat several days later. Police have said they do not know why Versace was killed.
9 February 1998 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
16 February 1999 – In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.
23 March 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
9 April 1999 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, president of Niger, is assassinated.