is  purchased  from  Russia  for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by  United States Secretary of State   William H. Seward . -- 1981  –  President   Ronald Reagan  is  shot in the chest  outside a  Washington, D.C. , hotel by  John Hinckley, Jr. BIRTHDAYS: 1952  –  Jigme Wangchuck , Bhutan