TIM MAGUIRE
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán is 78 years old today.
In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist
of all time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin
Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake
band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last
necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States,
thereby making the document the law of the land.
This date marked the end of government under the Articles
of Confederation and the beginning of the new government
established by the Constitution.
During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace
(right) the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate
was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer (left).
Three others were wounded, and Wallace was permanently
paralyzed from the waist down. The next day, while fighting
for his life in a hospital, he won major primary victories in
Michigan and Maryland.
On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the first African American
woman elected to Congress and one of Wallace’s opponents
for the Democratic nomination, famously visited him in the
hospital to wish him well.
He remained in the hospital for several months, bringing his
third presidential campaign to an irrevocable end.
After his shooting, a hospitalized George C.
Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his
victories in the Maryland and Michigan
Democratic presidential primaries.
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September
13, 1998).
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the
chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named
John Hinckley Jr.
The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting
at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his
entourage to his limousine when Hinckley, standing among
a group of reporters, fired six shots at the president, hitting
Reagan and three of his attendants.
White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the
head and critically wounded, Secret Service agent Timothy
McCarthy was shot in the side, and District of Columbia
policeman Thomas Delahanty was shot in the neck.
After firing the shots, Hinckley (below) was overpowered
and pinned against a wall, and President Reagan, apparently
unaware that he’d been shot, was shoved into his limousine
by a Secret Service agent and rushed to the hospital.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
The former convict will be 70 years old May 29th.
The jury deliberated for a total of 24 hours over the course of four
days. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity to all his
13 charges.
