Today in History, April 14, 2021
Todayâs Highlight in History: On April 14, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. shipâs time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.) On this date: In 1759, German-born English composer George Frideric Handel died in London at age 74. In 1828, the first edition of Noah Websterâs âAmerican Dictionary of the English Languageâ was published. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of â...
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