I’ve never been a boat person, although I’ve had numerous occasions to become one. When I was a teenager, my father taught me to sail on his t…

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 Washington; Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street and died the following morning at 7:22 a.m.

On Feb. 3, 1959, which would become known as "the day the music died," rock 'n roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.