Today in History — April 14
1865
14 april 1865 USA Lincoln Assassination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play at Ford\'s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassination of Lincoln sent shockwaves throughout the nation, plunging the country into…
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Rosa Parks (1913)
American civil rights activist whose refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement.
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