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April 15, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies, several hours after being shot at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the nation’s 17th president.

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April 2, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”

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April 30, 1932: Meeting for the first time, Baltimore’s Mount Washington smothered the Washington Lacrosse Club, 21 to 0, in Baltimore.

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April 29, 1906: The Post reported that the new addition to the furniture establishment of W.B. Moses & Sons at Eleventh and F streets northwest marked an important improvement in this part of the business section. It was practically a new building, and estimated to cost $100,000.

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April 28, 1908: Three persons were slightly injured about 8:20 o’clock in the evening when car 42 of the Capital Traction Company hit an automobile and knocked it over an embankment at Fourteenth and Varnum streets. The automobile was driven by Miss Dona McCracken, of 1341 Fourteenth street northwest, who was accompanied by Mrs. F.S. Pollard, of 1331 Fourteenth street northwest, and Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, of 941 New York avenue northwest.

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April 27, 1952: Mike Avon and Paul Jarman of Washington, D.C., set a new world’s men’s doubles record today in the 22d annual national duck pin bowling tournament in New Haven, Connecticut. They rolled 929. The former mark was 918, set by Ray Haines and Art Felter of Baltimore in the national tournament at Richmond, Va., four years prior.

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April 26, 1936: Commissioner George E. Allen, the District works administrator, announced that the per capita cost of WPA projects in the District during the nine months ending with March was approximately $375 per man.

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April 25, 1923: As a result of an action taken by the board of directors, holders of the common stock of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, after a period of 4 years and 8 months of nonpayment of dividends, were to receive $1.25 a share on June 1.

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April 24, 1901: An interesting case arising out of the horsewhipping of William L. Wood, a railroad employee, was heard before Judge Scott, when Samuel T. Graves and his daughter, Edith, were charged with assault on Wood. The horsewhipping took place at Four-and-a-half and G streets southwest, and grew out of the rejection of Miss Graves’ application for admission into an order known as the Daughters of America.

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April 23, 1909: A welcome reception was held for the Rev. Arthur H. Thompson at the Waugh M.E. Church, 3rd and A streets northeast, to which church he was recently assigned.