On this day: April 14

Fog So Thick Players Couldn’t See Bases in 1907 Baseball Game

On April 14, 1907, a major-league baseball game in Brooklyn was played amid such dense fog that players, umpires and spectators had extreme difficulty seeing the bases and the ball, producing one of the era’s most notorious weather-impacted contests.

President Abraham Lincoln Shot at Ford's Theatre

On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; he died the following morning. The attack, carried out by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, marked the first assassination of a U.S. president and shocked the nation during the closing days of the Civil War.

Titanic Strikes an Iceberg and Begins to Sink

On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began taking on water; within hours the ship’s design and safety limitations would be tested as passengers and crew faced an unfolding maritime disaster.

The first Volvo automobile rolls off the line in Gothenburg, 1927

On April 14, 1927, Volvo's first production car — the ÖV 4 — completed assembly in Gothenburg, marking the founding company's entry into automobile manufacturing and the start of a Swedish automotive brand that would become internationally known.