Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2015. There are 261 days left in the year.
1611 ― Word “telescope” is first used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1859 ― Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” published
1865 ― President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium
1904 ― George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida”, premieres in London
1912 ― The Titanic, launched on 31 May 1911, on route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30 p.m., and sinks early the next morning (1500+ death toll)
1948 ― A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon
1963 ― George Harrison is impressed by the unsigned group “Rolling Stones”
1964 ― Sandy Koufax throws his ninth complete game without allowing a walk
1971 ― President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People’s Republic of China
1978 ― Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia