On This Day

On February 15, 1933, an unemployed bricklayer named Giuseppe Zangara fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt just finished a speech at Miami’s Bayfront Park, from the back seat of his open touring car, when Zangara fired six shots. The president escaped injury but the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak and five other people were hit. Cermak later died from the stomach wound he received in the attack.