26 April

Cavalry trap Booth and Herold in a barn on the Garrett farm; Herold surrenders and Booth is shot and dies.

Lincoln Assassination Executed

Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators.

William Cunningham Deane-Tanner is born in Carlow, Ireland.

William Desmond Taylor Unsolved

A leading Hollywood director was shot in his bungalow in 1922. The suspects included two film stars and a stage mother, and the case files later vanished.