It's tax day folks - time to 'fess up and come clean to the tax man.
Here's your Today in History
April 15, 1792 -
The Guillotine is first tested on human corpses.
Delis all over France have to wait years for the meat slicer to be invented.
April 15, 1865-
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.
The president's death came only six days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
April 15, 1912 -
Unsinkable ship Titanic sinks after being torn by iceberg, with a loss of 1493 passengers.
April 15, 1945 -
British and Canadian troops liberate the Bergen-Belsen death camp in northern Germany.
April 15, 1955 -
The first McDonald's franchise opens in Des Plains, a suburb of Chicago. Because it is the first one launched by Ray Kroc, he names it "McDonald's #1" despite the fact that the McDonald brothers had already opened eight of their chain restaurants before they began accepting licensees.
Kroc's unfortunate numbering system guarantees perpetual confusion for amateur fast food historians the world over.
April 15, 1962 -
Actress Clara Blandick, 80, the Auntie Em of the Wizard of Oz, takes an overdose of sleeping pills and ties a plastic bag around her head in a Hollywood hotel room.
Prior to this, she had prominently arranged her resume and press clippings so the newspapers would get her obituary right.
April 15, 1990 -
Greta Garbo dies on this date.
She finally got her wish.
And so it goes.
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