April 14
April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (105th in
leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
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Events
\n*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.\n*69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.\n*1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.\n*1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.\n*1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. \n*1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary\n*1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California\n*1864 - Battle at the 'Düppeler Schanzen'. The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany\n*1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day\n*1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies\n*1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day\n*1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day. \n*1914 - The town of Irving, Texas is incorporated.\n*1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic\n*1935 -Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl\n*1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.\n*1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France\n*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. \n*1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight\n*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.\n*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.\n*2003 - Jean Charest's Quebec Liberal Party defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections\n*2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa.
Births
\n*1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician (d. 1695)\n*1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)\n*1827 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, archaeologist (d. 1900)\n*1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, scientist (d. 1896)\n*1842 - Catherine Eddowes, fourth confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)\n*1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d. 1940)\n*1886 - Ernst Robert Curtis, romanist (d. 1956)\n*1891/1892 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, politician (d. 1956)\n*1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor (d. 2000)\n*1908 - Hermann Stahl, writer\n*1925 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)\n*1933 - Morton Subotnick, composer\n*1936 - Kenneth Mars, actor\n*1940 - Loretta Lynn, country music singer\n*1941 - Julie Christie, actress\n* 1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player\n*1942 - Valeri Brumel, athlete (d. 2003)\n* 1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut\n*1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist\n*1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician\n*1960 - Brad Garrett, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)\n*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)\n*1966 - Greg Maddux, baseball player\n*1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor\n*1973 - Adrien Brody, actor\n*1974 - Da Brat, rap musician\n*1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
Deaths
\n*1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, composer (b. 1685)\n*1914 - Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)\n*1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)\n*1925 - John Singer Sargent, artist (b. 1856)\n*1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (b. 1882)\n*1964 - Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (b. 1907)\n*1975 - Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)\n*1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs, educator and religious theorist, dies at 101\n*1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (b. 1908)\n*1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer, actor (b. 1909)\n*1999 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)\n*2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (b. 1927)
Holidays and Observances
\n* New Year Celeberations in parts of Northern India, South India. Vishu Harvest festival celeberations in Kerala, India\n*Baisakhi - [Celeberations in Punjab, India]\n*Poila Baisakh - [Celeberations in Bengal, India]\n*Vishu - [Harvest festival in Kerala, India]
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