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Did You Know This Is The 152nd Anniversary of the USA's First Successful Assassination of a Sitting President?

April 14, 1865...and then Sir John Tenniel, the political brilliant satirist for PUNCH Magazine who had lampooned President Lincoln mercilessly, submitted this to Punch after Lincoln's death.

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And with the exception of Johnson, every president since Kennedy has been threatened with assassination.

Posted - April 14, 2017
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  • 44649
    And he was actually sitting.
      April 14, 2017 11:14 AM MDT
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  • I am holding my tongue
      April 14, 2017 11:22 AM MDT
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  • 44649
    We can see that.
      April 14, 2017 11:30 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    And how best to take note of that fact....
      April 14, 2017 12:10 PM MDT
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  • It is also the 105th anniversary of the Titanic's ill-fated collision with a North Atlantic iceberg, and the 488th anniversary of the birth of brilliant Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens, who among many other achievements, discovered Saturn's moon Titan and designed the first pendulum clocks, revolutionizing timekeeping. 
      April 14, 2017 2:19 PM MDT
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  • Hi Zee, yes I had overlooked the Titanic...knowing it was near this date also, found myself thinking of Lincoln...and I did not even realize this was the date of Huygens' birth!
      April 14, 2017 2:55 PM MDT
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  • Huygens was a prominent mind of the 17th century European Enlightenment period and a seminal figure in my chosen field of engineering. 
      April 14, 2017 4:47 PM MDT
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  • He was something of a polymath, I think...I knew of him largely because of his work with optics, which I delved a bit because of all my years using microscopes...
      April 14, 2017 7:07 PM MDT
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  • Quite a turnaround for Tenniel. I can't imagine anybody paying such a tribute if anything untoward happened in the current administration. 
      April 14, 2017 2:36 PM MDT
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  • Dozy, yes I was touched by the graciousness of Tenniel.

      April 14, 2017 2:58 PM MDT
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  • I'm sure you've noticed that this year's calendar is identical to the one in 1865.
      April 14, 2017 9:04 PM MDT
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  • Dear Driftwood, no I had not...but yes! It was a Friday night...was it not?
      April 14, 2017 9:32 PM MDT
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