1881 ⟶ President Garfield Assassinated

President James A. Garfield is assassinated.
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💀 President William Henry Harrison Dies in Office

William Henry Harrison is the first US president to die in office.⟶
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🔪 Assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

April 14: United States President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth, while attending a performance at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. He dies approximately nine hours after being shot on April 15, 1865.⟶
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🔫 President Garfield Assassinated

President James A. Garfield is assassinated.⟶
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🔪 McKinley Assassination and Roosevelt's Ascension

September 6: The assassination of William McKinley ushered in office Vice President Theodore Roosevelt after McKinley's death on September 14.⟶
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🇺🇸 President Harding Dies; Coolidge Becomes President

August 2: Death of Warren G. Harding; Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumes office as President of the United States.⟶
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🇺🇸 Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugurated as U.S. President

March 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as President of the United States⟶
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