Wikipedia: April 14

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.

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
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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
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 - The United States bombs Libya in retaliation for Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against United States citizens

Births

1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician († 1695)
1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (&dagger 1870)
1827 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, archaeologist († 1900)
1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, scientist († 1896)
1886 - Ernst Robert Curtis, romanist († 1956)
1892 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, politician († 1956)
1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor († 2000)
1908 - Hermann Stahl, writer
1925 - Rod Steiger, actor († 2002)
1936 - Kenneth Mars, actor
1940 - Loretta Lynn, country music singer
1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player
1941 - Julie Christie, actress
1942 - Valeri Brumel, athlete († 2003)
1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist
1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician
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 (* 1685)
1914 - Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (* 1855)
1917 - Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (* 1859)
1925 - John Singer Sargent, artist (* 1856)
1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (* 1882)
1964 - Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (* 1907)
1975 - Fredric March, actor
1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs, educator and religious theorist, dies at 101
1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (* 1908)
1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer, actor
1999 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer
2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (* 1927)

Holidays and Observances

See Also:

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