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.
• AD 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.
• 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
• 1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
• 1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
• 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.
• 1986 - 2.2 lb (1kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
• 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts 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.

Births

• 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician (d. 1695)
• 1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
• 1827 - Augustus 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 Curtius , 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 (The Little Mermaid, Tale Spin, Malcolm in the Middle)
• 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
• 1966 - David Justice, 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, German 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, English artist (b. 1856)
• 1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
• 1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1964 - Rachel Carson, American writer (b. 1907)
• 1968 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1975 - Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
• 1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs , educator and religious theorist
• 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (b. 1909)
• 1999 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
• 2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (b. 1927)

Holidays and Observances

• New Year Celebrations in parts of India and whole of Sri Lanka
• Baisakhi - [Celeberations in Punjab, India]
• Poila Baisakh - [Celeberations in Bengal, India]
• Vishu - [Harvest festival in Kerala, India]
• Black Day - informal celebration day for single people in South Korea
• Youth Day in Angola

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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