Modern Era · North America · Politics
1981
Reagan shot
March 30, 1981
Seventy days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot outside a Washington hotel by a young man trying to impress the actress Jodie Foster. The bullet lodged inches from his heart. Reagan joked with doctors that he hoped they were Republicans. He survived and was back in the Oval Office within weeks.
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Also in 1981 (6 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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