While shaking hands with Miami Mayor Anton Cermak at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was shot in the lung and seriously wounded when Giuseppe Zangara, alleged at the time to be attempting to assassinate Cermak, hit Roosevelt instead. He dies on March 2nd from the wounds at Walter Reed General Hospital. John Nance Garner is sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States.