On this day April 14th:
Five days after Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to the Union, John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, and went with his wife to Ford’s Theatre, to see a famous play called Our American Cousin. Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. Booth believed he was avenging the North’s tyranny of the South.
On this day 1975, Operation Babylift occurred, lifting thousands of Vietnamese babies (orphans) to the USA. On April 4th, hundreds had died when the plane carrying them crashed. Wonder why they took all those babies… What do US service men do when they’re not involved in incidents of friendly fire?
On this day in 1988, Russian Soviet forces finally admitted defeated and pulled out of Afghanistan.
On this day in 2003, Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein fell to US forces, without much resistance at all.