The war of white Americans against the native population still remains one of the bloodiest pages in the United States of America. At that time, the Indians were not too ceremonious and any methods of destruction were used, up to the spread of blankets infected with smallpox among the tribes. It was not considered shameful to deceive an Indian - why bother with them, with savages.
In 1811, Chief Tecumseh refused to accept Indiana Governor William Harrison's paltry payment for ancestral lands. The conflict is known throughout history as the Tecumseh War. In one of the battles, the brave warrior fell, but before dying he managed to curse the entire nation of white invaders. Tekumse predicted that every president elected in a year ending in 0 and divisible by 20 would die before the end of his presidency. Only dry facts will follow.
The first victim
The first to die was the same William Henry Harrison, who, when he was governor of Indiana, annoyed the Indians and Tecumseh in particular. On March 4, 1841, Harrison delivered his inaugural address in a cold wind, which caused him to catch a cold and died a month later. The curse began to work.
Abraham Lincoln
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In 1860, the presidency went to Abraham Lincoln. The great ruler who achieved the abolition of slavery could have done much more for the country, but in 1965 he was shot dead in the theater by John Wilkes Booth. As Tekumse said, he did not live to see the end of his first term.
James Garfield
Garfield, elected in 1880, served as president for only six months. On July 20, 1881, Garfield traveled to Washington DC Railroad Station, where he was shot and killed by a Southern supporter, Charles Guiteau.
William McKinley
In 1896, William McKinley became president. He did an excellent job of his duties and was re-elected in 1900, but the second term ended too quickly for McKinley. On September 5, 1901, the ghost of Tekumse touched this president too: he was shot by the American anarchist Leon Frank Czolgosh.
Warren Harding
Warren Harding became the 29th president of America in 1920. His reign was marked by a series of high-profile financial scandals, in addition, Harding did not hesitate to have affairs with young ladies on the side, although he was married. On August 2, 1923, Harding and his wife stayed at a hotel in San Francisco. By the morning the president was already dead. Moreover, historians still do not know the cause of death: the president's wife officially forbade the autopsy.
Franklin Roosevelt
The famous Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first elected in 1932. Then the people left him in office twice more, in 1940 and 1944. In 1945, Roosevelt died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage. The attending physician of the White House just threw up his hands - Franklin Roosevelt was distinguished by good health and two days before his death he underwent a full medical examination.
John F. Kennedy
The assassination of John F. Kennedy (Americans still call him the last real shooter) came as a terrible shock to the country. This murder is still the first of the most mysterious incidents in American history. John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 - he became the seventh victim of the Tekumseh curse.
The curse is weakening
The mystics believe that after the seventh generation, curses gradually lose their power. Ronald Reagan won the 1980 elections and was supposed to be Tekumseh's eighth victim, but managed to survive the 1981 assassination attempt.
The last prick
In 2000, George W. Bush took the presidency. We can say that the Tecumseh curse on him has finally dried up: in the only assassination attempt that happened in 2005, George Bush did not receive a scratch.