26 Aug 2024 7:01 am
Here is a list of ALL attacks. If it is not on this list, it is not an attack.RebelGator » 25 Aug 2024, 6:55 pm » wrote: ↑ There was an attack on the Capitol?
I must have missed it.
- In 1814, just 14 years after the building opened, British forces in the War of 1812 tried to burn it down.
- In 1835, a deranged house painter tried to shoot two pistols at President Andrew Jackson outside the building
- 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks attacked abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner with his cane on the floor of the Senate
- 1915, a German man planted three sticks of dynamite in the Senate reception room; it went off shortly before midnight, when no one was around.
- 1954, when four Puerto Rican nationalists unfurled the island’s flag and, shouting “Freedom for Puerto Rico,” unleashed a barrage of about 30 shots from the visitor’s gallery of the House. Five congressmen were injured, one of them seriously.
- 1983 in response to the invasion of Grenada. Neither caused any deaths or injuries, but both resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and led to tougher security measures.
- 1998, when a mentally ill man fired at a checkpoint and killed two Capitol Police officers. One of the dying officers managed to wound the gunman, who was arrested and later institutionalized. A nearby statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun still bears a bullet mark from the incident.
- 2013, a dental hygienist with her 18-month-old daughter in tow tried to drive onto the White House grounds, and was chased to the Capitol, where she was shot to death by police.
