Monday, April 26, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

APRIL 26
1983:Ten-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, receives a letter from Soviet leader Yuri Andropov inviting her to visit after he reads her letter worrying about nuclear war.


1865:
Soldiers kill John Wilkes Booth, the escaped assassin of President Lincoln, in a Virginia barn.

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