• In 1982, Ronald Reagan became the first incumbent president of the United States to survive being struck by a would-be assassin's bullet.
  • Of five serving president's struck by bullets, four died:

President Abraham Lincoln -- assassinated in 1865 at age 56

President James Garfield -- assassinated in 1881 at age 49

President William McKinley -- assassinated in 1901 at age 58

President John F. Kennedy -- assassinated in 1963 at age 46

President Ronald Reagan -- attempted assassination in 1982 at age 70

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