1865 april 15..... Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth
1912 april 15.....The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived
1947 april 15.....Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

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