What the records say
- When
- 2 Jul 1881
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 38.89° N, 77.02° W
- Description
- 1881 murder of the 20th President of the United States
- Injured
- 1
5 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Assassination of James A. Garfield: United States President James A. Garfield is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau in Washington”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “James A. Garfield suikastı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “assassinat de James A. Garfield”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “米ガーフィールド大統領が背後から銃撃を受け重傷を負う(ガーフィールド大統領暗殺事件)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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