Pope John Paul II (sweet old boy, ran the Catholic church, you know the one) was shot today in St Peter's Square, Rome in 1981. His would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agea shot him four times (so His Holiness clearly had friends in high places) in protest at American and Russian imperialism. Presumably he also tried to murder the US President on the grounds that he didn't care for the way the church of Latter Day saints was being run. You couldn't make it up, could you?
In other news ...
Ronald Reagan hit the Presidential (as opposed to cattle) trail today back in 1979. His comment for the Press was 'I used to say that politics was the second lowest profession and I have come to know that it bears a great similarity to the first.'
Who said that guy was losing his marbles? How did he ever become President? Twice?
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