Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12, 1809. Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, California, Missouri, and New York observe the holiday.
Charles Darwin was also born on the same day. He was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a one roomed log cabin, on Sinking Spring farm at Hodgenville (Hodgensville, Hodgen's Mill), Kentucky, It is now a national historic site open to the public. He was the first president to be born outside of the original 13 colonies.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating a deeply divided Democratic Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln's victory on an anti slavery ticket was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
Five days after General Lee's surrender, on April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to attend the play Our American Cousin by English playwright Tom Taylor with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.. During the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, entered the presidential box and fired a pistol at point-blank range into the back of Lincoln's head
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