Editing 1930s (section)

== Assassinations and attempts ==
[[File:AlexanderIOfYugoslavia50223v.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]]]]

Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include:
* Japanese prime minister [[Hamaguchi Osachi]] is shot and wounded by a right-wing extremist in 1930, dying of his wounds nine months later.
* French president [[Paul Doumer]] is assassinated in 1932 by [[Paul Gorguloff]], a mentally unstable Russian émigré.
* Japanese prime minister [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] is [[May 15 incident|assassinated]] in 1932 by a group of young naval officers and army cadets. 
* Chicago mayor [[Anton Cermak]] was fatally wounded in 1933 by [[Giuseppe Zangara]], an Italian immigrant who intended to assassinate President-elect [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Zangara fired five shots at Roosevelt, but Cermak was the one hit, succumbing to his wounds several weeks later.
* U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor of Louisiana [[Huey Long]] is assassinated in 1935 by [[Carl Weiss]].
* [[Engelbert Dollfuss]], [[Chancellor of Austria]] and leading figure of [[Austrofascism]], is assassinated in 1934 by Austrian Nazis. Germany and Italy nearly clash over the issue of Austrian independence despite close ideological similarities of the [[Italian Fascist]] and Nazi regimes.
* [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia]] is assassinated in 1934 during a visit to [[Marseille]], France. His assassin was [[Vlado Chernozemski]], a member of the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]]. The IMRO was a political organization that fought for secession of [[Vardar Macedonia]] from Yugoslavia.<ref>"The first central committee of IMRO. Memoirs of d-r Hristo Tatarchev", Materials for the Macedonian liberation movement, book IX (series of the Macedonian scientific institute of IMRO, led by Bulgarian academician prof. Lyubomir Miletich), Sofia, 1928, p.&nbsp;102, поредица "Материяли за историята на македонското освободително движение" на Македонския научен институт на ВМРО, воден от българския академик проф. Любомир Милетич, книга IX, София, 1928.</ref>
* [[Sergei Kirov]], an early Bolshevik revolutionary and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, is assassinated in 1934, escalating political repression in the Soviet Union.
* [[Saitō Makoto]] and [[Takahashi Korekiyo]], both former prime ministers of Japan, are assassinated by ultranationalistic Army officers during the [[February 26 incident]] in 1936.
* [[Adolf Hitler]], dictator of [[Nazi Germany]], survived an assassination attempt in 1939 when a bomb planted by [[Georg Elser]] exploded at the [[Bürgerbräukeller]] in [[Munich]]; he had left the building early, avoiding the blast that killed eight others.