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Show The Edison klnetoscope made Us first public appearance in New York, April 14, 1894, but the commercial career of the motion picture began two years later, with Introduction of the Armat machine, a vltascope. The United States was aaddened April 15, 18G5, by the announcement announce-ment that President Abraham Lincoln had died, victim of an assassin's assas-sin's bullet. Years later, April 15, 1912, another Important bulletin echoed around the world: the S.S. Titanic had struck an Iceberg, sinking the "unslnkable" ship. Born on April 16 were: Amos Alonzo Stagg (1802); Charley Chaplin (1889); Wilbur Wright (1867) and Lily Pons (1904). This was a front-page headline April 17. 1942: DOOLITTLE RAIDS TOKYO. Paul Revere made his famous ride to Lexington on the night of April 18, 1775. The date of the San Francisco earthquake was April 18, 1906. The first blow for American freedom was struck at Lexington, April 19, 1775. On April 20, 1903, the United States paid Columbia 25 million dollars dol-lars for the loss of Panama. |