Non-musical history for today: 1900 – The world’s fair Exposition Universelle opened in Paris. Some exhibitions for this exposition were: Grande Roue de Paris, a Ferris wheel that was, at the time, the largest ever built; La Rue de l’Avenir, a moving sidewalk, much like the ones you find in airports, but outside; the first ever regular passenger trolleybus line; escalators; diesel engines; electric cars; dry cell batteries,; electric fire engines; talking films; the telegraphone (the first magnetic audio recorder);  the galalith (a synthetic plastic) and the matryoshka (Russian nesting) dolls. It was also what kicked off the Art Nouveau movement. I would have loved to have been there.

Also, in 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. Booth went on the lam and was caught twelve days later. Well, “caught” is a funny word. He died the same way Lincoln did, but in a burning barn by a soldier.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 14.

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