Calendar

Historical Events

• 1755 Samuel Johnson‘s “A Dictionary of the English Language” is published in London
• 1861 Federal army of 75,000 volunteers is mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War
• 1874 First ‘Impressionist’ exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot

• 1877 World’s first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. [1]
• 1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
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At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.

Source

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/titanic-sinks

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