Today In History For April 14th

Today is Thursday, April 14, the 104th day of 2011. There are 261 days left in the year.

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington; the president died nine hours later.

In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published.

In 1981, the first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.