On April 14, 1849, Hungary declared itself independent of Austria, with Lajos (Louis) Kossuth as its leader.
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On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln [1] was shot by John Wilkes Booth [2] while attending a production at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning.
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April 14, 1881: The famed Four Dead in Five Seconds gunfight [3] in El Paso, Texas.
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Today’s feature article is a guest post from a long-time SurvivalBlog reader. Because it is partly self-promotional, it is not part of the writing contest judging.
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