80-76: Assassination Attempt in Butler
80: 52 American hostages are released from Iran after 444 days in captivity ft. Fox News Contributor and Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano.
79: President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law. The most impactful of the New Deal initiatives
78: President Trump is shot while campaigning at an outdoor rally in Butler, PA. The former president was grazed in his ear while an audience member was killed and two others injured. The shooter was killed at the scene ft. National Political Reporter for the Washington Examiner and author of Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland, Salena Zito.
77: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigating communism in the film industry. Three years later in 1950 US Senator Joe McCarthy accuses the State Dept. of being filled with 205 Communists.
76: The Soviet puppet regime of East Germany begins construction of The Berlin Wall separating East and West and challenging U.S. foreign policy.
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