Tuesday, April 14, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

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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