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Birth Name: Anton Joseph Cermak
Born: 9 May 1873 Died: 6 March 1933
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Anton J. Cermak was born on May 9, 1873 in Kladno, Bohemia [now Czech Republic]. He died on March 6, 1933 in Miami, Florida, USA.
Cermak, who was the mayor of Chicago, was on the dais in Miami, Florida, at a political rally with President Franklin D. Roosevelt when an Italian anarchist in the audience named Giuseppe Zangara pulled out a pistol and opened fire. Cermak was hit and died soon after. At first it was thought that Zangara was trying to assassinate Roosevelt and instead hit Cermak, but recently several historians have theorized that Cermak actually was Zangara's target, not Roosevelt. The theory goes that Cermak, who
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