Wednesday, April 14, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

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APRIL 14
1910:President William Howard Taft throws out the first pitch of the Washington Senators' season and starts a century-long national tradition.


1865:
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington. He dies the next day.

1902:
J.C. Penney opens his first store, a small dry goods shop called Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo.


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