On this day, Feb. 22, in 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House because the aircraft disturbed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sleep.
The president’s house has since been the target of at least three aerial incidents.
In 1974, an Army private stole a helicopter from Fort Meade, hovered above the White House for six minutes and landed on the South Lawn.
In 1994, a distraught Maryland man crashed a Cessna two stories below President Clinton’s bedroom.
And on Feb. 22, 1975, that Samuel Byck killed a police officer and shot two pilots at Baltimore/Washington International Airport in an attempt to hijack and crash a jetliner into the White House.
