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Events on Friday 14 April 1865 1
1865Assassination of Abraham LincolnShot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's TheatrePresident Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the following morning, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated, just days after the Confederacy's surrender.