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A bystander grabs Moore's arm; Ford leaves the St. Francis Hotel unhurt

A taxi driver takes the ricocheted bullet meant for the president.

Just seventeen days after Lynette Fromme attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, another woman waited for him outside a San Francisco hotel. On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired a .38 revolver at Ford from about forty feet as he left the St. Francis Hotel. The gun's sights sat six inches off target at that range, and the shot missed. Moore raised her arm to fire again, but former Marine Oliver Sipple lunged and grabbed her, and the second shot went wild, wounding cab driver John Ludwig instead…

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Lincoln warns the South: free the slaves by New Year's or the Union will do it for you

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Hale is hanged at the Park of Artillery; the British deny him a Bible and a clergyman

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1964

Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; King watches as a year's promise becomes law

The bill survived 72 days of Senate delay to pass 73 to 27, outlawing discrimination by race, sex, religion, and national origin in schools, workplaces, and public accommodations.
1960

50-star flag rises over Fort McHenry; Hawaii's star joins the banner at last

Eisenhower ordered the new design the moment Hawaii's admission was official last August, and the flag now flying above Baltimore carries the pattern for all 50 states.
1962

AEC detonates 'Sedan' 636 feet underground at Yucca Flat; 12 million tons of earth go skyward

The radioactive cloud is already drifting east, and early tracking puts fallout exposure across the Midwest at more than 13 million people.
1958

Eisenhower signs Alaska into the union; the territory has waited forty years for this moment

The House voted 210-166, the Senate 64-20; Alaska is cleared to become the 49th state, though formal admission is not yet complete.
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