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 (below), shouted, “Sic semper
tyrannies! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as
he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln
died the next morning.

John Wilkes Booth’s pistol used to kill President Abraham Lincoln is displayed at a new exhibit at the Ford’s Center for Education and Leadership.  

The box where Abraham Lincoln was shot is seen at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC on April 1, 2015.

Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s preeminent political theorist, was
born in Shadwell, Virginia on April 13, 1743. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

Roosevelt served as the 32nd president of the United States
from 1933 until his death.

Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken April 11, 1945, the day before his death.

In the afternoon of April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia,
while sitting for a portrait (below) Roosevelt said "I have a
terrific headache.” He then slumped forward in his chair,
unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom.

The president’s attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn,
diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive intracerebral hemorrhage.

At 3:35 p.m. that day, Roosevelt died at the age of 63.      

  
  
 

The president died while poising for this portrait. Years
later the artist made a second, complete version from
photo’s and memory, the only difference, besides being complete, is the color of FDR’s necktie.

TIM MAGUIRE

The Saturn V SA-508 rocket carrying the Apollo 13
mission really did blast off at 14:13 (military time
for 2:13 p.m., ET) from the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida—and in Houston (CT),

MIKE GRACIA

Woodrow Wilson before Congress in 1917.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)