Tuesday, April 14, 2009

In history...

* 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John
Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's
Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.)
* 1912 , the British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at
11.35pm in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the
loss of 1,517 lives
* 1949, at the conclusion of the "Wilhelmstrasse Trial," 19 former Nazi
Foreign Office officials were sentenced by an American tribunal in
Nuremberg to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years
* 1981, the first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102),
completes its first test flight


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