- 1865] A bad day at the theater: 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] Pass the popcorn: The first public showing of Edison's kinetoscope aka 'moving pictures' is held...
- 1902] The money man: James Cash Penney opens his first retail store, The Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer (WY). The name will be changed to J.C. Penney...
- 1910] Play ball: 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...1955] Elston Howard becomes the Yankees first black player...1969] The first major league game is played in Canada (Montreal)...
- 1912] Down with the ship: 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] Sour grapes: John Steinbeck publishes "The Grapes of Wrath"...
- 1956] Get out the splicing bars: Ampex Corporation demonstrates the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture...
- 2002] Can't hold that Tiger: Tiger Woods becomes only the third golfer in history to win back-to-back Masters titles...
- 2003] A Tikrit to ride: Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falls to U.S. led forces with unexpectedly light resistance...
- 2007] 'Happy Trails': Hawaiian singer Don Ho dies from heart failure at 76...For more on April 14th:
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