9 April

On 9 April 1865, the Fifth Doctor prevented U.S. President Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated by Aaron Eddowes, in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the defeated Confederate States of America. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

Almost four centuries earlier, King Edward IV unexpectedly died, plunging England into a two-year period of successional uncertainty involving the Princes in the Tower, their uncle Richard and the eventual "winner" of the contest, Henry VII. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)