U.S. President History
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status
1975 - U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City. The next day the New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City - Drop Dead."
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Ave. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Clinton.
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