APRIL 14
1912:Four days into her maiden voyage, the ocean liner Titanic collides with
an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The Titanic will sink early the next
morning, taking 1,517 of her 2,240 passengers down with the ship.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is mortally wounded by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln will die the next morning, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated, while Booth will be surrounded in a barn in Virginia and shot to death several weeks later.
2003: Researchers announce that the Human Genome Project, an attempt to sequence the billions of DNA bases that make up the human genetic blueprint, has been completed to 99.9% accuracy, two years ahead of schedule.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is mortally wounded by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln will die the next morning, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated, while Booth will be surrounded in a barn in Virginia and shot to death several weeks later.
2003: Researchers announce that the Human Genome Project, an attempt to sequence the billions of DNA bases that make up the human genetic blueprint, has been completed to 99.9% accuracy, two years ahead of schedule.
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