On this day :

1981 President Reagan shot, 1775 King George endorses New England Restraining Act, 2009 President Obama announces auto industry shakeup, 1825 Samuel Bell Maxey born, 1948 Henry Wallace criticizes Trumans Cold War policies, 1981 Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley Jr, 1980 Oil workers drown in North Sea, 1814 Allies capture Paris, 1855 Violence disrupts first Kansas election, 1867 Sewards Folly, 1870 15th Amendment adopted, 1981 Obsessed Jodie Foster fan John Hinckley Jr shoots President Reagan, 1820 Anna Sewell author of Black Beauty is born, 1974 John Denver has his first 1 hit with Sunshine On My Shoulders, 1891 Sockless Simpson rallies populist farmers, 1981 Reagan is shot, 1965 Bill Bradley scores 58 points for Princeton, 1965 Bomb explodes outside US Embassy in Saigon, 1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive, 1918 Allied troops halt Germans at Moreuil Wood, 1940 Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking,