TIL When Tsarevich Nicholas(later Nicholas II) visited Japan in 1891, an attermpt on his life was made by a man wielding a katana. His cousin, Prince George of Greece, saved his life by parrying the sword with his cane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctsu_incident#Details_of_the_attack
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