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1828 - Spelling reformer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English.
1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre.
1912 - The transatlantic ocean liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1931 - The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.

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