Today is Thursday, April 16, the 106th day of 2026. There are 259 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school shooting ...

Today is Wednesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2026. There are 260 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland just over two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. More ...

Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2026. There are 261 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in ...

Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2026. There are 262 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 13, 1997, Tiger Woods, at age 21, became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, finishing a record 12 strokes ahead of Tom Kite. Also on this ...

Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2026. There are 264 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 11, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Also on this date: In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated ...

Today is Sunday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2026. There are 263 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, orbiting the earth once before landing safely via parachute after a planned ejection from his space ...