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Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Deseret News archives: Nation mourned after President Lincoln's death at assassin's hands
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater the previous evening; Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president hours later. And just like that, a nation was without its leader, its commander in chief, its uniter in chief. On April 11, President Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, 'We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.' The speech occurred only days after the surrender at Appomattox Court House of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, which had signaled the effective end of the American Civil War. It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver. On April 14, Lincoln and his wife attended a performance of the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre in Washington. He was shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. After he was shot, Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street and died the following morning at 7:22 am. Lincoln's death plunged much of the country into despair, and the search for Booth and his accomplices was the largest manhunt in American history to that date. Here are some stories from Deseret News archives about Lincoln's death and what he meant to the nation: 'On 150th anniversary, Lincoln's hometown re-enacts funeral' 'Lincoln was important to Utah throughout presidency' 'Diligence, care, beliefs, unity — on the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's death, we should live up to his legacy' 'Rare tickets to Ford's Theatre for the night Lincoln was assassinated sold for $262K' 'Lincoln saved a nation but deflected credit to a greater power' 'Lincoln frequently worked with Latter-day Saint faithful' 'President trivia: Fun facts, details involving Abraham Lincoln'
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
On This Day, April 15: Abraham Lincoln assassinated at Ford's Theatre
April 15 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1817, the oldest, permanent U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn. In 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died of an assassin's bullet fired the night before at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as chief executive. In 1912, the luxury liner Titanic sank in the northern Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland after striking an iceberg the previous night. Approximately 1,500 people died in the tragedy. In 1931, Spanish Republicans formed a new government as King Alfonso sailed into exile. In 1944, the Soviet army captured the Polish city of Tarnopol from German occupation. When Nazi Germany took the city in 1941, it murdered thousands of Jews, and in 1944, the Soviets killed some 4,500 Germans and destroyed much of the city. In 1947, Major League Baseball's color line was officially broken with the debut of Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on opening day. Robinson, who went on to become one of the game's great stars, walked and scored a run in the Dodgers' 5-3 victory over the Boston Braves. In 1955, the first franchised McDonald's was opened in Des Plaines, Ill., by Ray Kroc, who got the idea from a hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif., run by the McDonald brothers. In 1970, President Richard Nixon asked Congress for legislation to prohibit dumping of polluted dredge waste into the lakes. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered airstrikes against the Libyan regime of Moammar Gadhafi in response to the bombing of a Berlin discotheque that killed two U.S. serviceman. In 1998, Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader who presided over a reign of terror in Cambodia in the late 1970s, died at a jungle outpost near the Cambodia-Thailand border. In 2009, Tea Party protests, largely critical of President Barack Obama and his policies, had their biggest turnout to date on April 15, tax day -- in many cities. In 2013, two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260. In 2014, after sending a distress signal, a South Korean ferry capsized off the country's southern coast, an incident that killed about 300 people. In 2017, the bombing of a convoy of buses carrying evacuees killed at least 126 people in Aleppo, Syria, including dozens of children. In 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they managed to avoid the total destruction of one of Paris' most recognizable landmarks. In 2021, a former employee at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis opened fire at the building, killing eight people and himself. It was the state's most deadly mass shooting. In 2023, Atiq Ahmed, a former Indian politician, and his brother, Ashram Ahmed, were shot dead on live TV while flanked by police on the way to a nearby hospital for a checkup after he was jailed for a kidnapping plot.
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.)
