Photo of firefighter Chris Fields holding a dying infant won Charles
Porter the  Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.

The British ocean liner RMS Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. on Monday, April 15, 1912
in the North Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg the previous evening. The ship
was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York. A total 1,514
people died. It is listed as one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in
history.

This iceberg was photographed by the chief steward of the liner Prinze Adelbert on
the morning of April 15, 1912, just south of where the Titanic sank.. What caught his attention was the smear of red paint along the base of the berg.

Color plans of Titanic

The bow of Titanic photographed in June 2004  during an expedition of the
shipwreck.

After leaving Southampton, England (above) on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, Titanic stopped at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before
heading westward on her journey across the Atlantic to New York.  

         
           April 9, 1979

The Alaska earthquake lasted nearly four minutes and was the most powerful
recorded quake in U.S. and North American history and the second most powerful
ever measured by a seismograph with a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the
second largest earthquake in recorded history.