Sites to see and research tools for my vacation to see sites associated with the turn-of-the-century rash of assassinations in Europe (with a stop in Chicago and a stop in Buffalo)... in 2008? 2009?

1. Chicago

the hanging of the August spies 1887

2. Buffalo

President McKinley 1901

3. St. Petersburg, Russia

Czar Alexander II 1881

4. France

Paris - President Carnot 1894
Marseille - Yugoslav King (Dictator) Alexander I 1934 (not turn of the century, I know)

5. Spain

Mondragón - Premier Canovas 1897
Madrid - Premier Canalejas 1912
Barcelona - I don't think any important assassinations have happened there at all, but hey, while I'm in Spain...

6. Geneva, Switzerland

Austria's Empress Elizabeth ("Sissi") 1898
Lake Geneva / Montreux

7. Milano, Italy

King Humbert (Umberto I) 1900
Monza

8. Sarajevo, Bosnia

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este 1914

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