Democratic candidate Donald Trump sustained an injury to the ear at a campaign rally on Saturday as multiple shots were fired at him in Butler Town, Pennsylvania.
As per reports, the former president is not in a critical condition anymore.
The incident occurred two days before he was nominated the presidential candidate by the Republican National Convention.
The incident underscores a troubling history of the US leaders, spanning from Lincoln to Trump.
Let's take a brief look at US presidents who are attacked.
The seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, was attacked in 1835 by Richard Lawrence outside the Capitol Building, but both of his pistols misfired. This made him the first person to attempt to assassinate a US president.
In 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wike Booth while he was attending a performance at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.
He previously escaped an assassination attempt in 1864.
Charles Guiteau, a frustrated office seeker, attacked James A Garfield twice in 1881 at a train station in Washington, DC. The 20th US President was injured so badly that he had to suffer for months and died in 1881.
William McKinley was shot twice by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz during a public event in Buffalo, New York, in 1901.
An Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Zangara, fired shots at Franklin D Roosevelt’s car but missed the shot.
Moreover, in 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate the 33rd president, Harry S Truman.
John F Kennedy was struck in the back and head on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
President Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts in 1975; both were by women.
The 40th president of the US, Ronald Reagan was wounded outside a Washington hotel by John Hinckley Jr.
In 1994, Bill Clinton faced an attack when Francisco Martin Duran fired shots at the White House.
In 2005, during a speech in Tbilisi, Georgia, a grenade was thrown at George W Bush, but it failed to explode.
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Remarks came in a campaign appearance in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania
"There is nothing to talk about with people who unleash such things," Zakharova said
