宋教仁 led the Kuomintang to a landslide victory in China's first parliamentary elections (1912-1913) and was poised to become premier when he was gunned down at Shanghai North Railway Station on March 20, 1913. The assassination, widely blamed on President Yuan Shikai (
袁世凯), sparked the Second Revolution (
二次革命) and ended China's brief experiment with parliamentary democracy.