What most interesting person was murdered on this date in 1916, and how was he murdered?

Stew54

Grigori Rasputin. Prince Felix Yussupov invited Rasputin to his palace on the pretext of his wife Irina needing his attentions as a healer. In a dining room in the palace basement, the prince plied Rasputin with poisoned wine and cakes; when Rasputin failed to die, the prince and his co-conspirators repeatedly shot him in the chest, back and head, and beat him around the head with a dumb-bell handle. They then tied what they thought was his corpse in a sheet and dropped it through a hole in the ice into the river Neva, where Rasputin finally died by drowning. Dec 30 03, 11:27 AM

Gimboid

Correct Stew! Rasputin was a self-fashioned Russian holy man, murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his sway over the royal family. Dec 30 03, 11:38 AM

robboy

Rasputin died on December 16th, not this date... Dec 30 03, 11:38 AM

Stew54

What robboy is alluding to is that if you had been in Russia at the time you would have used the Julian calendar and thought it to be December 16. Dec 30 03, 11:49 AM