14 April
April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
Events
- 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
- 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
- 1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
- 1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
- 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
- 1864 - Battle at the 'Düppeler Schanzen'. The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day
- 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies
- 1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day
- 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.
- 1914 - The town of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
- 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic
- 1935 -Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl
- 1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
- 1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
- 1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight
- 1986 - In retaliation for the bombing of a West Berlin night club where a U.S. serviceman was killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, that killed 60 people.
- 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
- 2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections
- 2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa.
Births
- 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician (d. 1695)
- 1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
- 1827 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, archaeologist (d. 1900)
- 1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, scientist (d. 1896)
- 1842 - Catherine Eddowes, fourth confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d. 1940)
- 1886 - Ernst Robert Curtis, romanist (d. 1956)
- 1891/1892 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, politician (d. 1956)
- 1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor (d. 2000)
- 1908 - Hermann Stahl, writer
- 1925 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)
- 1933 - Morton Subotnick, composer
- 1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer
- 1936 - Kenneth Mars, actor
- 1940 - Loretta Lynn, country music singer
- 1941 - Julie Christie, actress
- 1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player
- 1942 - Valeri Brumel, athlete (d. 2003)
- 1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
- 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist
- 1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician
- 1960 - Brad Garrett, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)
- 1965 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be March 1, 1964)
- 1966 - Greg Maddux, baseball player
- 1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
- 1973 - Adrien Brody, actor
- 1974 - Da Brat, rap musician
- 1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
Deaths
- 1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, composer (b. 1685)
- 1914 - Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)
- 1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
- 1925 - John Singer Sargent, artist (b. 1856)
- 1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (b. 1882)
- 1964 - Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (b. 1907)
- 1975 - Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
- 1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs, educator and religious theorist, dies at 101
- 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (b. 1908)
- 1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer, actor (b. 1909)
- 1999 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
- 2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (b. 1927)
Holidays and Observances
- New Year Celeberations in parts of Northern India, South India. Vishu Harvest festival celeberations in Kerala, India
- Baisakhi - [Celeberations in Punjab, India]
- Poila Baisakh - [Celeberations in Bengal, India]
- Vishu - [Harvest festival in Kerala, India]
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