1865, President Abraham Lincoln dies in Washington, hours after John Wilkes Booth shoots and mortally wounds him at Ford’s Theater. Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln in the White House.

1947, “Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?It went zoomin cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hit that ball.”Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in major league baseball. His debut with Brooklyn Dodgers shatters baseball’s decades-old racial barrier.

1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.

1986, the United States launches an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a disco in what’s then West Berlin, Germany. Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, are killed in the raid.

1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, dies of natural causes along the border with Thailand at age 73. He evades prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians under his brutal regime during the 1970s.

And 2001 Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to gooooI wanna be sedatedIn New York, punk rocker Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramone dies of lymphoma at age 49.

Today in History, April 15th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.