1933 - President-Elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt narrowly escaped an assassination attempt shortly after giving a speech at Bayfront Park in Miami on this date. The would-be assassin, Guiseppe Zangara, an Italian immigrant and unemployed bricklayer, fired 5 shots towards Roosevelt who was standing on stage, fatally wounding the Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak and injuring four others. Zangara was wrestled to the ground, arrested, and found guilty of murder, receiving the death penalty at Raiford Prison in Union County on March 20^th of the same year.