Ronald Reagan was the last president to be shot dead before Donald Trump was gunned down at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
As Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, he was shot several times and was wounded when a bullet ricocheted off a vehicle and struck him under his left armpit.
Then-President Reagan spent 12 days at George Washington University Hospital before returning to the White House.
Trump is not currently President of the United States, but he is the first person to be shot dead since that day in 1981.
This photo, taken by presidential photographer Mike Evens on March 30, 1981, shows the response of police and Secret Service agents during the attempted assassination of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
The White House has released this photo taken inside the Capitol Hilton seconds before President Reagan was shot
Donald Trump grabs his ear as he is targeted by a gunman
According to police, the shooter is dead.
The former president and this year’s presumptive Republican presidential nominee was speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when several slaps were heard before Trump grabbed his ear and ducked behind the podium.
Several members of Trump’s Secret Service came to protect him and escort him off the stage.
Trump immediately stood up and held his fist up, blood streaming down the side of his face.
An assassination attempt on President Reagan resulted in his press secretary, James Brady, being shot in the head. A police officer and a Secret Service agent were also wounded
Potential Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr.
Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face, surrounded by Secret Service agents
The only other failed assassination attempt on an American president before Reagan was that of Theodore Roosevelt.
Three and a half years after leaving office, he was shot in 1912 while campaigning as a member of the Progressive Party.