Today is Thursday, April 14, the 105th day of 2016. There are 261 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Bradford Dillman is 86. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 84. Actress Julie Christie is 76. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 75. Actor John Shea is 67. Actor Brad Garrett is 56. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 50. Actor Adrien Brody is 43. Classical singer David Miller is 43. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 39. Roots singer JD McPherson is 39. Rock singer Win Butler (Arcade Fire) is 36.

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 Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington.

In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)

In 1965, the state of Kansas hanged Richard Hickock and Perry Smith for the 1959 murders of a family, the genesis of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.’’

In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Last year, the White House said it would remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a key step in President Obama’s bid to normalize relations between the two countries.