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Abdalla Hamdok
- Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt in March 2020 after his convoy was attacked with an explosive device on the way to his office in Khartoum.
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Jair Bolsonaro
- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed at a campaign rally on September 6, 2018. The injuries to his intestines almost killed the controversial far-right candidate, but he made a full recovery.
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Jair Bolsonaro - Bolsonaro was attacked by a man named Adélio Bispo de Oliveira. The man, who was taken into custody, said he was carrying out an order from God.
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Nicolás Maduro
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was the target of an assassination attempt during a military parade in the capital, Caracas, on August 5, 2018.
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Nicolás Maduro - The politician has blamed Colombia for the incident, in which two drones carrying explosives were set off near the president's stand as he was giving a speech.
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Donald Trump - On June 18, 2016, a 20-year-old Brit tried to steal a gun from a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas, with the alleged intention of killing the then-presidential candidate.
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Donald Trump
- Michael Sandford ended up being sentenced to 12 months in jail. The story inspired the BBC documentary 'The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump.'
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Adolf Hitler - The German Führer survived a few dozen assassination attempts, but the most well-known was Operation Valkyrie, headed by the German resistance member Claus von Stauffenberg.
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Adolf Hitler - A briefcase filled with explosives was planted next to Hitler during a meeting, but it all failed when Generalmajor Heinz Brandt unknowingly moved the bag, which went off and killed him and three other men.
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Fidel Castro - In total, the late Cuban leader was the target of assassination attempts on more than 600 occasions.
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Fidel Castro - One of the attempts, allegedly plotted by the CIA, involved planting mollusk shells that contained explosives underwater, so that he would pick them up while scuba diving.
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Barack Obama - The former US President was meant to be the final target of a killing spree planned by two white supremacists in 2008, who would also murder several other African-Americans in the process.
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Barack Obama - Paul Schlesselman (pictured) and Daniel Cowart were convicted for attempted murder and sentenced to 10 and 14 years, respectively.
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Charles de Gaulle - The late French President was the victim of a murder attempt as he was traveling on an automobile with his wife from Élysée Palace to Villacoublay Air Base on August 22, 1962.
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Charles de Gaulle - Attackers fired over 140 shots at the car, but the chauffeur managed to accelerate as the de Gaulles ducked down, and the couple survived.
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Benazir Bhutto - Twice Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party had been the target of a murder attempt before the December 2007 attack that took her life.
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Benazir Bhutto - On October 18, 2007, two bombers targeted Bhutto's homecoming parade at Karachi's airport. The late politician survived, but the Al-Qaeda attack killed 139 people.
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Ronald Reagan - The US President was involved in a twisted murder attempt that involved a gunman and, somehow, actress Jodie Foster. Attacker John Hinkley Jr. approached Reagan outside a hotel in Washington, D.C. and fired at him six times.
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Ronald Reagan - One of the bullets ricocheted off the presidential limousine and hit Reagan in the chest, but he survived. Turns out Hinkley was obsessed with Foster, so he carried out an attack similar to what Robert De Niro's character does in the movie 'Taxi Driver' (which also stars Foster) just to get her attention.
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Franklin Roosevelt - On February 15, 1933, gunman Giuseppe Zangara attended Roosevelt's speech in Miami, during which he decided to climb on to a chair to see the US President-elect more clearly as he shot at him.
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Franklin Roosevelt - The crowd got hold of him after he fired the first shot, but he still managed to fire his gun another four times, hitting five bystanders, including the Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak, who died a few weeks later from the wounds.
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Vladimir Putin - On election day in 2008, a man carrying sniper and Kalashnikov assault rifles was arrested in a flat near Moscow's St Basil's Cathedral, where Putin was due to give a speech.
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Vladimir Putin - Twenty-four-year-old Tajik Shakhvelad Osmanov had rented that flat as it offered a clear line of view to the cathedral stage, where Putin would be standing.
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Khaled Mashal - On September 25, 1997, Mashal, who at the time was the Jordanian branch chief of Palestinian party Hamas, was ordered to be killed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in retaliation for the Mahane Yehuda Market Bombings in Jerusalem.
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Khaled Mashal - One of the hired agents injected a toxin into Mashal's ear as he entered his office, and he eventually survived after King Hussein of Jordan and then-US President Bill Clinton convinced Netanyahu to hand out the antidote.
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Ahmed Dogan - While Bulgarian political leader Ahmed Dogan was delivering a speech at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia in January 2013, a gunman approached the podium and pointed the weapon at him.
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Ahmed Dogan
- Luckily, the gun failed to shoot and the assailant was tackled to the ground and arrested on the spot. The entire incident was captured on camera.
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Political figures who survived assassination attempts
These failed attempts could have changed the course of history
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Politics is a tough business, but most of us don't consider it a matter of life and death for the politicians themselves. Well the political figures on this list are certainly an exception. Click through this gallery to discover a long list of political figures who survived assassination attempts.
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