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title: "An assassination attempt was made on the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, as he left a Washington D.C hotel on March 30, 1981."  
description: "An assassination attempt was made on the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, as he left a Washington D.C hotel on March 30, 1981."  
author: "valentine d'suja"  
published: 2018-03-11  
updated: 2018-03-30  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39949/an-assassination-attempt-was-made-on-the-life-of-ronald-wilson-reagan-the-40th-president-of-the-united-states-as-he-left-a-washington-d-c-hotel-on-march-30-1981  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# An assassination attempt was made on the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, as he left a Washington D.C hotel on March 30, 1981.

An [assassination attempt](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35928/how-many-presidents-have-survived-an-assassination-attempt-while-in-office) was made on the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th [President of the United](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34894/who-was-the-president-of-the-united-states-during-world-war-1) States, as he left a [Washington D.C](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41777/what-did-the-british-offer-to-enslaved-african-americans-in-exchange-for-looting-and-burning-the-capitol-building-in-washington-d-c) hotel on March 30, 1981. Who was the deranged gunman who critically wounded Reagan and three other men on that fateful day?


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