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 15 April
1914: Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes Typhus Fever (Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City)
1935: Black Sunday: Severe dust storm ravages the US Midwest, led to the region being named “the Dust Bowl”
1981: 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
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