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Elzire Dionne with her quintuplets shortly after their birth.
The Dionne quintuplets (above) were born on this day in 1934 near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
The two surviving sisters, Annette and Cécile.
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The Columbine High School massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on this day in 1999, at Columbine High School in
Columbine, Colorado.The perpetrators, twelfth grade (senior)
students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students
and one teacher and injured 21 additional people trying to escape
the school building. Ten students were killed in the library, where
the pair subsequently committed suicide. At the time, it was the
deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history.
Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right) recorded on the high
school’s surveillance cameras in the cafeteria, 11 minutes before
their suicides.
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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)
