Please remember the significance of April 14th when it comes around





1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington
1894 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland
1935 Black Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest, creating the "Dust Bowl"
1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
2017 Rachel Divine departed Ireland with one suitcase full of g strings and another full of cash