Attack at the US Capitol - a podcast by BBC World Service

In 1954, Puerto Rican militants opened fire in the US House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen - we hear how the assault was one of many previous attacks on American democracy. Plus, the coup attempt in Spain in 1981, India's first woman lawyer and landing a probe on Titan, one of Saturn's moons.

PHOTO: Lolita Lebron and two other Puerto Rican activists are arrested in 1954 (Getty Images)

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