14th April
1865
President Lincoln shot
At Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth, an actor
and Confederate sympathizer, fatally wounds President Abraham
Lincoln. The attack came only five days after Confederate General
Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox,
effectively ending the American Civil War.
14th April
1865
Titanic hits iceberg
Just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic fails
to divert its course from an iceberg, ruptures its hull, and begins
to sink.
Four days earlier, the Titanic, one of the largest and most
luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England,
on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
