Youth Day (Angola)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Abraham Lincoln

Sinking of the Titanic

• 1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 22:40. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
• 1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik-2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Shakira

What's the biggest dog in the world? Watch the ABC report. Could a little boy find his mom using Google? Read the BBC article. How would you celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic? Watch the CNN report. Who in the world is Alfredo Rodriguez? Listen to the NPR interview. What's the link between pop star Shakira and education? Watch the Reuters report. Mexico has recently been compared to Colombia. Watch the Time interview with Colombian President Juan M. Santos. What exactly happened a hundred years ago? Watch the Associated Press' animated video.