The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA🗓️ 16 April 1853Railway company in British India (1849–1951)
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.📜 CINEMA🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 16 April 1912American aviation pioneer (1875–1912)
First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1952American strategic bomber aircraft
Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA🗓️ 15 April 20022002 aviation accident in South Korea
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 14 April 18651865 murder in Washington, D.C., US
The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. William Grover-Williams wins driving a Bugatti Type 35.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 14 April 1929Motor car race
STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 14 April 1981First Space Shuttle mission, first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia