A witness to Lincoln's assassination talked about it on television.
Samuel Seymour was five when he sat in Ford's Theatre in 1865; in February 1956 he appeared on the TV show I've Got a Secret.
The events
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln1865 · Ford's Theatre, Washington. On 14 April 1865, five days after the main Confederate army surrendered, the actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The president died the next morning, the first US president to be assassinated.
- First public demonstration of television1926 · London. On 26 January 1926 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird showed scientists in London's Soho a transmission of moving images of human faces. Mechanical television soon gave way to electronic systems developed by Vladimir Zworykin, Philo Farnsworth and others.
More amazing facts
- 1864 In 1864 Spain seized Peru's bird-dropping islands.
- 1864 Olivier salad was invented in the 1860s by Lucien Olivier, a chef of French and Belgian origin at Moscow's Hermitage restaurant.
- 1865 The US paid a Civil War pension until 2020.
- 1865 Under an 1865 British law, a man with a red flag had to walk 60 yards ahead of any road locomotive.
- 1865 Welsh is still spoken in Argentine Patagonia.
- 1865 · 1969 In 1865 Jules Verne sent three men to the Moon from Florida, just as Apollo 11 did 104 years later.