This day in history

[lufttiger]

1912 – The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people.

[razorboy]

April 15, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln died from a single gunshot wound to the head received the night before at the Ford Theatre. Vice President Andrew Johnson sworn in as 17th U.S. President. John Wilkes Booth and accomplices sought by Federal forces.

[Klaus]

16, April 1945: With the attack on the Seelower Höhen starts the battle for Berlin.

[razorboy]

April 18, 1775
Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington warning the Colonists of the approaching British Army.

Extra credit WITHOUT GOOGLING (Honor System) - What was his horse's name?

[lufttiger]

1918 – The German fighter pilot known as "The Red Baron", the most successful flying ace of World War I with 80 confirmed air combat victories, was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

[lufttiger]

1915 – The Germans released chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, killing over 5,000 soldiers within ten minutes by asphyxiation in the first large-scale successful use of poison gas in World War I. Ouch! a nasty way to die.