Today in History: September 22, President Ford survives assassination attempt

At present is Monday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On Sept Sara Jane Moore fired two shots in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Gerald R Ford outside a San Francisco hotel missing Ford by inches Also on this date In during the Revolutionary War Capt Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British in New York Related Articles Trump officers praise Charlie Kirk s faith and his mark on the conservative movement Natural gas pipeline ruptures in southern Wyoming setting fire to a freight train Trump ramps up retribution campaign with push for Bondi to pursue cases against his foes This day in History September Nairobi shopping mall attack The present day in History September hurricane plunges Puerto Rico into darkness In President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation declaring all enslaved people in Confederate states should be freed as of Jan if the states did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union In Haitian women were allowed to vote for the first time years after Haiti became an independent country Fran ois Duvalier was elected president In the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into a full-scale war that would continue for nearly eight years In rock and country music artists participated in Farm Aid a concert staged in Champaign Illinois to help the nation s farmers In people were killed when an Amtrak traveler train derailed and plunged off a bridge into Big Bayou Canot near Mobile Alabama In the United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets In as the scale of the damage from Hurricane Maria started to become clearer Puerto Rican officers disclosed they could not contact more than half of the communities in the U S territory where all power had been knocked out to the island s million people In the current era s Birthdays Singer-choreographer-actor Toni Basil is Musician King Sunny Ad ah-DAY is Football Hall of Famer Harold Carmichael is Rock singer David Coverdale Deep Purple Whitesnake is Actor Shari Belafonte is Singer Debby Boone is Country singer June Forester The Forester Sisters is Singer Nick Cave is Singer Andrea Bocelli an-DRAY -ah boh-CHEL -ee is Singer-musician Joan Jett is Actor Scott Baio is Actor Bonnie Hunt is Actor Mireille Enos is Soccer athlete Thiago Silva is Actor Tatiana Maslany is Actor Tom Felton is Actor Teyonah Parris is Olympic gold medal skateboarder Coco Yoshizawa is