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Chicago Tribune
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: President Abraham Lincoln shot
Today is Monday, April 14, the 104th day of 2025. There are 261 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street and died the following morning at 7:22 am. Also on this date: In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's 'American Dictionary of the English Language' was published. 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 and a half hours later, killing over 1,500 people.) In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. In 1935, the devastating 'Black Sunday' dust storm descended upon the central Plains as hundreds of thousands of tons of airborne topsoil turned a sunny afternoon into total darkness. In 1981, the first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 2021, A white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. (Potter would be found guilty and serve 16 months in prison.) Today's Birthdays: Former NYPD detective Frank Serpico is 89. Actor Julie Christie is 85. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 80. Actor Peter Capaldi is 67. Actor Brad Garrett is 65. Actor Robert Carlyle is 64. Golf Hall of Famer Meg Mallon is 62. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 59. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 57. Actor Adrien Brody is 52. Rapper Da Brat is 51. Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar is 48. Actor-producer Rob McElhenney is 48. Actor Abigail Breslin is 29.
Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Today in History: April 14, Abraham Lincoln fatally shot at Ford's Theatre
In 1772, American colonists in Weare, N.H., attacked and beat Sheriff Benjamin Whiting and Deputy John Quigley after they had arrested, then released, a saw mill operator for violating royal rules governing the harvesting of pine trees. Those rules stated the biggest trees must be used only to build warships for Britain. The attack, one of the first direct confrontations leading to the American Revolution, would become known as the Pine Tree Riot. In 1775, 250 years ago, General Thomas Gage received order from Lord Dartmouth, commanding him 'to arrest and imprison the principal actors & abettors in the Provincial Congress' in Massachusetts, a group Dartmouth called 'a rude Rabble without plan.' Five days later, his army left their barracks en toute to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock and seize arms in Concord. Also on this day, the Provincial Congress issued a recommendation to citizens of Boston to leave for the country. Delegates also called for the training of militia units in artillery. Advertisement In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's 'American Dictionary of the English Language' was published. Advertisement In 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street and died the following dayat 7:22 a.m. 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 and a half hours later, killing over 1,500 people.) In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first US president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game, as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. In 1935, the devastating 'Black Sunday' dust storm descended upon the central Plains, as hundreds of thousands of tons of airborne topsoil turned a sunny afternoon into total darkness. In 1981, the first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 2021, A white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. (Potter would be found guilty and serve 16 months in prison.)
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
On This Day, April 14: First abolition society founded in North America
April 14 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage -- was founded by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia. In 1828, Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language. It was the first dictionary of American English to be published. In 1861, the flag of the Confederacy was raised over Fort Sumter, S.C., as Union troops there surrendered in the early days of the Civil War. In 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Lincoln died the next morning. He was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson. In 1918, two U.S. pilots of the First Aero Squadron shot down two enemy German planes over the Allied Squadron Aerodome in France during World War I. It was the first U.S.-involved dogfight in history. One of the pilots, Lt. Douglas Campbell, would eventually shoot down five enemy aircraft, making him the first U.S. flying ace. In 1927, the first Volvo was produced in Sweden. In 1931, King Alfonso XIII was deposed, ending 981 years of monarchical rule in Spain, and ushering in the Second Spanish Republic, the republican regime that governed Spain from 1931 to 1939. In 1939, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published. In 1963, police broke up an Easter Sunday anti-segregation protest march in Birmingham, Ala., that saw Black Americans attend services at two white churches. In 1986, Bishop Desmond Tutu was named Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1994, in what was called a tragic mistake, two U.S. warplanes shot down two U.S. Army helicopters in northern Iraq's no-fly zone. All 26 people aboard were killed. In 2003, U.S. military officials declared that the principal fighting in Iraq was over after Marines captured Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town. In 2008, Silvio Berlusconi swept back into power in a third term as prime minister of Italy in a new election that gave him control of both houses of Parliament. In 2010, the devastating magnitude-7.1 Yushu earthquake staggered northwest China. Officials reported the death toll eventually surpassed 2,600, with many thousands of people injured. In 2013, Nicolas Maduro was elected president of Venezuela. In 2021, President Joe Biden announced he will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, a plan that NATO's 30 member states agreed to following a meeting with U.S. military and foreign relations leaders.
