27 of the Most Impactful Assassinations in History

‘Black cats just before the Bubonic Plague’

When someone gets assassinated, people notice. They have to, for it to qualify as an assassination and all. If you assassinate someone, and no one realizes they’re dead? You kinda just killed a guy. Regular murder style.

If their death marks a clear turning point in our planet’s history, however? Absolutely, undeniably, an assassination. That person was definitely important. So what assassinations in history had the heaviest influence on the future?

Redditors have shared their grim nominations, and you can read on and think of what might have been — good or bad.

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