On this day in 1912, the ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and
more than 700 people survived.
Lifeboat 6 from the Titanic, as it approached the Carpathian
on the morning of April 15, 1912.
On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
The above photograph was taken by Petersen House
boarder Julius Ulke shortly after the president died in
this bed. (Source: Chicago History Museum)
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