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Royal House Of Serbia: Yugoslavia took form as the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, built around the nucleus of the former Kingdom of Serbia and acknowledging the royal house of Serbia, only upon the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. The Serbian kings lasted until the end of World War II, when youthful King Peter was exiled. Their fall paved the way for the socialist state we now know, with Tito (Josip Broz) at the helm.
Appointed honorary consul general in New York for Serbia, he was an active agent for that country during World War I, and organized for relief work a corps of Columbia students who served in Serbia in 1915. He has published Electro-Magnetic Theory (1895) ; Immigrant to Inventor (1923), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1924; The New Reformation (1927) ; and Romance of the Machine (1930).
In the broad sense of assassinations of royal rulers under various titles, there have been since 1800: Czar Paul I, Russia, March 23, 1801; Prince Michael, Serbia, June 10, 1868; Sultan Abdul-Aziz, Turkey, June 4, 1876; Czar Alexander II, Russia, March 13, 1881 ; King Humbert I, Italy, July 29, 1900; King Alexander I Obreno-vich, Serbia, June 11, 1903; King Carlos I, Portugal, Feb. 1, 1908; King George I, Greece, March 18, 1913; Czar Nicholas II, Russia, July 29 (30?), 1918; King Alexander I, Yugoslavia, Oct. 9, 1934; King Ananda Mahidol, Thailand, lune 9, 1946; King Abdullah ibn-Husein, Jordan, July 20, 1951; King Faisal II, Iraq, July 14, 1958. This list does not include numerous presidents and other heads of state killed while in office. |
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