APRIL 14, 1865
Attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. He dies the next day.
1910: Setting a precedent, President William Howard Taft throws out the first ball to Walter Johnson before the Washington Senators game against the Philadelphia Athletics.
1939: John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning Dust Bowl novel The Grapes of Wrath is published.
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