March 30th 1981
Three months after the president Ronald Reagan took office, on March 30th 1981, he went to Washington, D.C. to give a speech. While leaving the Hilton Hotel, where he'd given the speech at, he was going to the car he was going to be taken to when he heard what he thought were "fire-crackers". He felt as if he was being pushed inside the limousine, by a secret agent. He soon realized he was coughing up blood and that he had a really sharp pain on his back. 
He got taken to the Washington University Hospital, and when he was finally under doctor care, the Doctors diagnosed that he had been shot, and would need an emergency surgery. The bullet, had struck one of his ribs, and then punctured his lung and lodged near his heart. During the time he was at the hospital he still mantained his humor, although he had been in critical conditions. A Couple of days after the incident, he was released and he immediately returned to office.
Turns out that the one that had shot, or tried to kill the president, was a young man of mid-
twenties and was obssesed in killing the president, just to impress an actress, who's name was John Hinckley Jr. While in his attempt to aim at the President, Ronald Reagan, Hinckley was ten feet away, and fired six shots which shot James Brady, the White House press secretary, a Washington policeman, and a secret service agent, and as well the president. This guy had something wrong going in his mind. Luckily, he was captured short after the shooting. Which was as if he didn't think of what'd happen after he done the deed he was going to do.
After this incident, the security for the president increased, and the president was watched more carefully. This was good because then people like John Hinckley could not try an attempt like this again.
