On this day in United States history…

I’m writing this at 6:40 AM. One hundred sixty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln had less than a. Hour to live. At 10:30 PM, the night before, the president was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth. Across the street from Ford’s Theatre, Lincoln was carried to a back room in the Peterson House. His life would come to an end at 7:22 AM.

In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage, sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean following a collision with an iceberg