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The Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri.

Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (center) signs
the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, Gen. Richard K. Sutherland
(left) observes.

Japan surrendered to the U.S. aboard the USS Missouri, ending
World War II. The war ended six years and one day after it began.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese surrender document.

President Harry S. Truman proclaiming this day in 1945 as V-J Day.

    
   
Seventy-three years after it sunk to the floor in the North Atlantic ocean, a
joint U.S. French expedition, led by Dr. Robert Ballard and Dr. Jean-Louis 
Michel, located the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner is located
963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the coast of
Newfoundland

From left: Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louise Michel.

York Times shows its April 16, 1912 front page coverage of the
Titanic disaster.

SANDY KOZEL

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)

 
DAVID MELENDY

On this day in 1933, the 32nd United States President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt (center) was sworn in and gave his inauguration speech
during the worst crisis America had faced since the Civil War. By 
early 1933, the U.S. economy had sunk to its lowest point in the
period known at the Great Depression. In Roosevelt’s speech he
said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself."