14 April 1912 - The day RMS Titanic hit the iceberg

On 14 April, RMS Titanic, the British passenger liner hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm. The vessel had 2,224 passengers and crew onboard and was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered into service. 1,500 people died when the accident happened owing mostly due to fewer lifeboats due to outdated safety regulations.

On 14 April, RMS Titanic, the British passenger liner hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm. (Luxury liner RMS Titanic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden Atlantic Ocean voyage to New York, April 10, 1912, File | AP) 

The vessel had 2,224 passengers and crew on board and was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered into service. (Workmen stand next to the screws of RMS Titanic at a Belfast Shipyard, File | Library of Congress)

The iceberg that supposedly caused the sinking of RMS Titanic. The photograph was taken from on-board the Prinz Adalberton in April 1912. (Henry Aldridge and Son/AP)

1,500 people died when the accident happened owing mostly due to fewer lifeboats due to outdated safety regulations. (The last known photo of the RMS Titanic afloat, File | AP)

Crowds gather around a bulletin board of the New York American newspaper where the names of people rescued from the sinking Titanic are displayed, in New York, April 1912.(File | AP)

Titanic goes down in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster. (Photo | AP/Paramount Pictures)

In 2001, Hollywood director James Cameron returned to Titanic, to gather more footage of the ship. James, along with his brother Mike built two remotely operated vehicles, nicknamed 'Jake' and 'Elwood' to film every part of the remains that the mini ROVs could enter. The end result was the documentary, 'Ghosts in the Abyss' (2003). (Photo | Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media)

Titanic Belfast, a monument was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, site of the Harland & Wolff shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built. (Photo | AP)