DAVID MELENDY

    
Seung-Hui Cho, the student gunman.

Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia
Tech.

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this
day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by
actor John Wilkes Booth. He was 56.

Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860, was the first U.S.
president to be assassinated. 

This engraving depicts John Wilkes Booth escaping after shooting President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. 

The Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall and is dedicated
to the memory of President Abraham Lincoln.

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic
sank into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of
Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried
2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and
half hours before.

The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic, it was          
reported to have a streak of red paint from a ships hull
along it s waterline on one side.
 

Opening Day welcomes the new spring baseball season each
year, a uniquely American tradition steeped in history and
fanfare.       

On this day in history, April 14, 1910, President William Howard 
Taft (above) became the first U.S. president to throw out the 
first pitch at a Major League Baseball game.       

William Howard Taft (1857 – 1930)

President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head at Ford’s
Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The assassin,
actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!
(Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as he jumped
onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next
morning.

The Presidential Box today at Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC.