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.
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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 Katherine 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)
- 1827 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, archaeologist († 1900)
- 1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, scientist († 1896)
- 1886 - Ernst Robert Curtis, romanist († 1956)
- 1891 - 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:
April 13 - April 15 - March 14 - May 14 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "April 14" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_14 December 27, 2003
