April 14

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April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and Observances

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 'D�ppeler 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 lib�ral du Qu�bec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Qu�b�cois 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 D�niken, 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)
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, writer ([[b. 1893)
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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