Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Near midnight on April 14, 1912, the Titanic grazed an iceberg and foundered hours later, killing roughly 1,500 people.
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln during a comedy at Ford's Theatre; the president died the next morning.
On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster issued a 70,000-word dictionary that gave American English its own spellings and identity.
