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Thursday February 17, 2005 Trivial Tidbits
Abraham Lincoln was born on 02/12/1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was the first president born outside of the original thirteen colonies.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, 04/14, in 1865. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Our American Cousin was also running at the McVerick Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, when Lincoln was nominated for president in Chicago on 05/18/1860.
Abraham Lincoln received U.S. Patent No. 6469 on 05/22/1849 for a "Manner of Bouying Vessels"
( Feb 17 2005, 10:00:25 AM PST )
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