Today is Monday, April 14, on 104 of 2025. 261 days remain in the year.
Today in history:
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, an performance of the play “Our US cousin” at the Ford Theater in Washington; Lincoln was tasks of a pension on the other side of the street and died the next morning at 7:22 am
Also on this date:
In 1828, the first edition of “American Dictionary of the English Language” by Noah Webster was published.
In 1912, the British eyeliner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 pm, boat time and begged the sinking. (The ship was less than two and a half hours later, killing more than 1,500 people).
In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first president of the United States to launch the first ceremonial launch in a baseball game when Washington senators beat the athletics of Philadelphia 3-0.
In 1935, the devastating dust storm of “Black Sunday” descended on the central plains when hundreds of thousands of tons of tons of candle in the air turned an afternoon sunny into total darkness.
In 1981, the first operational space ferry of the US test flight, Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at the base of the Edwards Air Force in California.
In 2021, a former Minneapolis suburban police officer, Kim Potter, was accused of involuntary homicide in second degree for killing the 20 -year -old black motorist, Daunde Wright, in a shooting that lit days of disturbances. (Potter would be convicted and would turn 16 months in prison).
Today’s birthday:
- The former New York Police detective Frank Serpico is 89 years old.
- Actor Julie Christie is 85 years old.
- Rockie Blackmore rock musician is 80 years old.
- Actor Peter Capaldi is 67 years old.
- Actor Brarett is 65 years old.
- Actor Robert Carlyle is 64 years old.
- The member of the Golf Meg Mallon Hall is 62 years old.
- The member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Greg Maddux, is 59 years old.
- Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 57 years old.
- Actor Adrien Brody is 52 years old.
- The rapper gives Brat is 51.
- Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar is 48 years old.
- Actors producer Rob Mcelhenney is 48 years old.
- Actor Abigail Breslin is 29 years old.