Two significant events occurred in our nation’s history on April 14th.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth on Friday evening, April 15, 1865, while watching OUT AMERICAN COUSIN at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. The president would expire the following morning.

The HMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean, struck an iceberg the evening of April 14, 1912. The ship would sink in the early morning hours of April 15th.