I posted a blog entry on the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express earlier today, which delivered it's first parcel delivery on this date in 1860.
Five years later on this date, however, came a much more somber event.
It was on this evening, 150 years ago, that President Abraham Lincoln went to Ford's Theater on a fateful night. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth, of course.
Lincoln died the next morning.
It was the first presidential assassination in American history, although certainly not the last.
Much like with FDR four score years later, Lincoln's assassination came towards the end of a major war that America was involved with at the time. That one, of course, was the Civil War, and Booth was one of many bitter Southerners, although his thirst for revenge obviously went much farther than it did for most others.
Lincoln is recognized as probably the greatest of American presidents, and probably this is rightly so.
But the country lost it's leader on this day, a century and a half ago.
Here is a lin with some little known facts about this momentous event:
10 interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination National Constitution Center By NCC Staff, April 14, 2015:
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