OnThisDay: April 14th
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1853 - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1860 - First Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco CA from St Joseph MO
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
1894 - First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium
1945 - My mother was born
1981 - First Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth