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==Assassinations and attempts== Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include: [[File:Michael Collins.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)]]]] [[File:Portret Narutowicz (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gabriel Narutowicz]]]] [[File:Pancho Villa bandolier (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pancho Villa]]]] * [[Venustiano Carranza]], [[President of Mexico|44th President of Mexico]], is assassinated while escape and sleeping in Tlaxcalantongo in the [[Sierra Norte de Puebla]] mountains. His forces were under attack there by General [[Rodolfo Herrero]], a local chieftain and supporter of Carranza's former allies on 21 May 1920. * [[Hara Takashi]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]], is assassinated by {{ill|Nakaoka Kon'ichi|ja|中岡艮一}} on 4 November 1921. * [[Walther Rathenau]], [[List of German foreign ministers|Foreign Minister of Germany]] is assassinated by [[Ernst Werner Techow]], Erwin Kern, and [[Hermann Willibald Fischer]], all members of [[Organisation Consul]] on June 24, 1922. * [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)]], was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for [[Irish revolutionary period|Irish revolutionary]]. Was shot and killed in an ambush by [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|anti-Treaty forces]] on 22 August 1922.<ref name=BostonPost_19220823>{{cite news |title=Rebels Kill Michael Collins / Irish Leader Slain in Ambush |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19220823_Rebels_Kill_Michael_Collins_-_The_Boston_Post.jpg |work=The Boston Post |date=23 August 1922 |page=1 |access-date=13 October 2020 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831210957/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19220823_Rebels_Kill_Michael_Collins_-_The_Boston_Post.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Gabriel Narutowicz]], a first [[President of Poland]] is assassinated by [[Eligiusz Niewiadomski]] on December 16, 1922. * [[Francisco "Pancho" Villa]], a [[Mexican Revolution]]ary general is assassinated by a group of seven assassins on July 20, 1923. * [[Zhang Zuolin]], was a Chinese [[warlord]] who ruled [[Manchuria]] from 1916 to 1928. Was [[Huanggutun incident|killed]] when his personal train was destroyed by an explosion at the [[Huanggutun Railway Station]] that had been plotted and committed by the Kwantung Army of the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] on June 4, 1928.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/06/06/archives/chang-tsolin-dead-says-tokio-report-mukden-dispatch-asserts-war.html |title=CHANG TSO-LIN DEAD, SAYS TOKIO REPORT; Mukden Dispatch Asserts War Lord Succumbed to Injuries in Train Bombing. |last=Byas |first=Hugh |date=1928-06-06 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-04-11 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * [[Álvaro Obregón]], [[President of Mexico|46th President of Mexico]], he was re-elected to the presidency in 1928 but he was assassinated at [[Parque de la Bombilla|La Bombilla restaurant]] before he could take office by [[José de León Toral]], on July 17, 1928.<ref name="krauze403">Krauze, {{Google books|sMIUcsUVyzsC|p. 403}}</ref>
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