On April 10, the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was designed by the Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie and built in Belfast, and was thought to be the world’s fastest ship. It spanned 883 feet from stern to bow, and its hull was divided into 16 compartments that were presumed to be watertight. Because four of these compartments could be flooded without causing a critical loss of buoyancy, the Titanic was considered unsinkable. While leaving port, the ship came within a couple of feet of the steamer New York but passed safely by, causing a general sigh of relief from the passengers massed on the Titanic‘s decks.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
On September 1, 1985, a joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titaniclying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet. The ship was explored by manned and unmanned submersibles, which shed new light on the details of its sinking.
BITS from past
| AMERICAN REVOLUTION | |
| Congress ratifies peace with Great Britain | 1783 |
| AUTOMOTIVE | |
| Race car driver goes down with the Titanic | 1912 |
| CIVIL WAR | |
| President Lincoln dies | 1865 |
| COLD WAR | |
| Castro visits the United States | 1959 |
| CRIME | |
| The Sacco-Vanzetti case draws national attention | 1920 |
| DISASTER | |
| “Unsinkable” Titanic sinks | 1912 |
| GENERAL INTEREST | |
| President Lincoln dies | 1865 |
| Titanic sinks | 1912 |
| Pol Pot dies | 1998 |
| HOLLYWOOD | |
| Greta Garbo dies | 1990 |
| LITERARY | |
| English author and politician Jeffrey Archer is born | 1940 |
| MUSIC | |
| Bessie Smith is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee | 1894 |
| OLD WEST | |
| Molly Brown avoids sinking with the Titanic | 1912 |
| PRESIDENTIAL | |
| Lincoln is pronounced dead | 1865 |
| SPORTS | |
| Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier | 1947 |
| VIETNAM WAR | |
| Antiwar protests held in New York and San Francisco | 1967 |
| U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam | 1970 |
| WORLD WAR I | |
| British evacuate Passchendaele Ridge | 1918 |
| WORLD WAR II | |
| Soviets capture Tarnopol in Poland | 1944 |
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