Today in History

April 14th has not been a kind one in the history books.

UnknownOn this date in 1865, Good Friday, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while watching a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington. He died the next morning.

 

 

images On this date in 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.