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-- card: 49055 from stack: in.0
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April 14
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In 1759, George Frideric Handel died in London.
In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published.
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy
"Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. The president died the following morning.
In 1902, J.C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyo.
In 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic ran into an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.
In 1931, King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile, and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
In 1945, American planes fire bombed Tokyo and damaged the Japanese imperial palace.
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"Too much of the world is run on the theory you don't need road manners if you are a five-ton truck."
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Anonymous.