Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, witnessed the death of his father and also had the misfortune of being in the vicinity when two other presidents were shot: James Garfield and William McKinley. He was summoned to Peterson House, where his father lay dying in 1865; moments before Garfield was shot at a railroad station in 1881, Robert Lincoln had spoken with him ; and Lincoln was in the same building when McKinley was shot in 1901 and died about a week later.
In 1949, the “Wilhelmstrasse Trial” in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years. In 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.
In 2012, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the RMS Titanic was built, thousands attended a choral requiem at the Anglican St. Anne’s Cathedral or a nationally televised concert at the city’s Waterfront Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. In 2018, Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies “Amadeus” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” won a deluge of Academy Awards including Oscars for best director, died in Connecticut at age 86.
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