Today is Wednesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2010. There are
261 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On
April 14, 1910, President William Howard Taft became the first
U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a
baseball game as the Washington Senators opened their season
with a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. On this
date: In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of
slavery was formed in Philadelphia. In 1828, the first edition
of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language"
was published. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our
American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. In 1902, James
Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in
Kemmerer, Wyo. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided
with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking. In
1939, the John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first
published. In 1949, at the conclusion of