April 14
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 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
External links
April 13 - April 15 - March 14 - May 14 -- listing of all days
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