1...that Marie-Anne Gaboury was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west? 2...that Terri Irwin co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin? 3...that the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season? 

John Wilkes Booth shot US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, on this date in 1865. The president died of his wounds the following day, and Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the country's 17th president. Booth, who managed to elude capture for a time, was finally shot and killed by a Union soldier nearly two weeks later

"Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself" -- Abraham Lincoln

malcontent: someone who is dissatisfied with conditions as they stand; John Wilkes Booth was a Southern malcontent, dissatisfied with Lincoln's policies regarding slavery.

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Noah Webster: published his American Dictionary of the English Language, insisting on American spelling (1828) William Howard Taft: became first US president to open a baseball season by throwing the first ball (1910) J.C. Penney: opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, earning a first-year profit of $8,514.36 on sales of $28,898.11 (1902)

Academy Award-winning actors: John Gielgud (1904-2000), Rod Steiger (1925-2002), Adrien Brody (32); plus Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar (28) Anne Sullivan: Helen Keller's teacher (1866-1936) Pete Rose: controversial baseball player (64)