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.
A converted Broadway shoe store became the world's first movie house, letting strangers pay to watch film whenever they pleased.
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.
