TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, April 14, the 104th day of 2022. There are 261 days left in the year. On this date in:
1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
1902: James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1910: President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. 1912: The British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)
1935: The “Black Sunday” dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny afternoon into total darkness. 1949: The “Wilhelmstrasse Trial” in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.
1960: Tamla Records and Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., were incorporated as Motown Record Corp. 1981: The first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1994: Two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.