AHC: 3 heads of state in one day

On February 19, 1913, Mexico had 3 presidents in one day: Francisco Madero, Pedro Lascuráin, and Victoriano Huerta.

When could this be replicated in other countries?
Pre-1900 PODs will be accepted.
 
On February 19, 1913, Mexico had 3 presidents in one day: Francisco Madero, Pedro Lascuráin, and Victoriano Huerta.

When could this be replicated in other countries?
Pre-1900 PODs will be accepted.

US President is shot in the midst of his inaugural speech. Vice President sworn in a couple hours later.
 
JFK is killed, like OTL.
LBJ after take the presidency on Air Force One dies by a stroke.
John William McCormack sworn in 37th President at the evening.
 
If Obama and Biden died at the same time, we could have President Boehner, and since he doesn't want to actually be president, he stays long enough for the Senate to appoint a "Vice President" that will immediate become POTUS after he resigns and returns to the House.
 

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U.S. November 22, 1963. JFK shot and killed, LBJ's plane crashes on takeoff.

Speaker of the House John William McCormack is sworn in as POTUS.

ninja'd by TPL99!
 
October 20, 1973- Pat Nixon dies of a heart attack. The saturday night massacre occurs.
October 21, 1973- Richard Nixon, incredibly stressed by the watergate scandal, yom kippur war,and his wife's death, commits suicide. Agnew is sworn in as president, but resigns after a few hours over his corruption charges. Carl Albert is sworn in as president.
 
George W. Bush is killed on 9/11 attacks. Dick Cheney is inaugrated as president but he dies half hours later from heart attack. Next person on succession line becomes president.
 
The antagonists' scheme in The Manchurian Candidate was supposed to end up with this result, I think.

In short-brainwash some US soldiers into becoming sleeper agents.
 
Have Elizabeth go on for a few more years. Charles, getting on himself, contracts a serious illness. Finally, at the age of 100, Queen Elizabeth II dies of natural causes. A few hours later, King Charles III dies. Prince William takes the throne.
 
Times of chaos

In the morning, a coup deposes a president. The new president for life lives up to the description, when he's shot an hour later by a counter-coup.
 

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The last two weeks in South Vietnam had three presidents IOTL, the last two who served for a week and then two days.

Have Thieu resign under American-French pressure to try and cut a deal, this time around though the Americans are willing to accept that "Big Minh" is the only chance for a peace agreement.

Minh comes in, but shockingly its too late for a Finlandization victory, as word was passed onto Hanoi that "their man in Saigon" is getting his chance, they're not interested. As Du'o'ng Van Minh isn't a man to rally the country into an effort to hold the Army and the Americans get him to resign a few hours later.

At which point Tran Van Huong gets brought in to rally the country with some sort of promise that "This time we mean Democratic Reforms".
 
Hitler kills himself, within an hour Karl Donitz takes over as leader and commits suicide, this could go on while
 
During Castro's coup, the President, Vice President and President of Congress all resigned, leaving the Chief Justice (Carlos Manuel Piedra) to be sworn in, plead for calm, and then flee to the US Embassy, all over the course of a few hours. When they realised he'd run away, the rebels declared the Presidency vacant.

There was also Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone on two occasions. The first time, he was arrested in a military coup during his swearing-in ceremony.

And then there's the Ur-example of Charles X abdicating, followed by his son Louis XIX twenty minutes later, who was then succeeded by his nephew Henri V for less than a week, until Louis Philippe sorted everything out.
 
Nepali royal family dispute

After a dispute with Birendra, the king of Nepal, his son prince Dipendra shoots his father (together with a substantial number of other family members), becomes a king automatically upon the deaths of his father, then shoots himself and falls into coma so his brother Gyanendra is appointed a regent (ergo a head of state). Dipendra dies in a few days, passing the throne to Gyanendra for real.
 
In Portugal, there were three kings in one day. The royal carriage was attacked by two assassins, one of whom killed the king instantly, the other of whom shot the prince royal, who died twenty minutes later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Regicide

An AH example. Have the 2002 Venezuelan coup succeed, with the execution or exile of Hugo Chavez. Have a counterrevolution (Bolivarian or otherwise) overthrow Pedro Carmona not long after.
 
The Lincoln Assassination. Booth successfully killed Lincoln, while Powell almost killed Seward and while Atzerodt decided not to try to kill Johnson.
 
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