Timeline Memories:
- 1865] President Abraham Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington (DC). He will die of his wounds the following day...
- 1894] The 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope a.k.a. 'moving pictures' is held...
- 1902] James Cash Penney opens his 1st retail store, The Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer (WY). The name will be changed to J.C. Penney...
- 1910] President William Howard Taft throws out the 1st ball for the Washington Senators-Philadelphia A's game in Washington (DC) and a tradition is born...1925] WGN becomes the 1st radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game as 'The Cubs win, the Cubs win, the Cubs win", 8-2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates...1955] Elston Howard becomes the Yankees 1st black player...1969] The 1st major league game is played in Canada (Montreal)...
- 1912] The Titanic, on its maiden voyage, hits an iceberg and begins to sink. It will fully sink at 2:27 a.m. on April 15th. More than 700 survive but 1,517 lose their lives...
- 1939] John Steinbeck publishes "The Grapes of Wrath"...
- 1956] Ampex Corporation demonstrates the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture...
- 2002] Tiger Woods becomes only the third golfer in history to win back-to-back Masters titles...
- 2003] Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falls to U.S. led forces with unexpectedly light resistance...
- 2007] Hawaiian singer Don Ho dies from heart failure at 76...
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