1828 British 18-gun sloop HMS Acorn sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard.
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later.
1912 RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland, sinks in the early hours of April 15
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast.
1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later.
1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace.
1958 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.
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