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{{PAGENAME}} is the 104th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (105th in
leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
Events
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43 BC -
Battle of Forum Gallorum.
Mark Antony, besieging
Julius Caesar's assassin
Decimus Junius Brutus in
Mutina, defeats the forces of the
consul Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus Pansa, who is killed.
*
69 -
Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats
Roman Emperor Emperor Otho in the
Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
*
1028 -
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the
Germany Germans.
*
1205 -
Battle of Adrianople (1205) Battle of Adrianople between
Bulgars and
Crusades Crusaders.
*
1450 -
Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
*
1471 - In
England, the Yorkists under
Edward IV of England Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick was killed and Edward IV resumed the throne.
*
1632 -
Battle of Rain,
Sweden Swedes under
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus defeat the
Holy Roman Empire during the
Thirty Years' War.
*
1699 -
Sikhism. Birth of the Sikh religion in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi Calender.
*
1775 - The first
abolition society in the
North America was established. The "
Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" was organized in Philadelphia by
Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
*
1828 -
Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his
dictionary.
*
1846 - The
Donner Party timeline Donner Party of
Settler pioneers departs
Springfield, Illinois Springfield,
Illinois, for
California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship,
cannibalism, and survival.
*
1849 -
Hungary declared itself independent of
Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.
*
1860 - The first
Pony Express rider reaches
Sacramento, California.
*
1864 -
Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of
Duchy of Schleswig Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
*
1865 -
Abraham Lincoln is shot by
John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day.
*
1890 - The
Pan-American Union was founded by the First International Conference of American States at their meeting in Washington. Known originally as the International Bureau of American Republics, William Elleroy Curtis became its first director.
*
1894 -
Thomas Edison demonstrates the
kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using
photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to
film movies.
*
1910 -
President of the United States President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first
baseball on opening day.
*
1912 - The British ocean liner
RMS Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.
*
1915 - The
Ottoman Empire Turks invaded
Armenia.
*
1927 - The first
Volvo 'Rolls' off the assembly line in
Gothenburg,
Sweden.
*
1931 -
Spain Spanish Cortes Generales Cortes deposes King
Alfonso XIII of Spain Alfonso XIII and proclaims the
Second Spanish Republic 2nd Spanish Republic.
*
1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the
Dust Bowl.
*1935 -
Babe Ruth played his first
National League game in
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox, in this, his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this season, Ruth played 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.
*
1940 -
Royal Marines land in
Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
*
1941 -
World War II: The
Ustashe, a
Croatian
far-right organisation that pursued
Nazi and
fascist policies, was put in charge of the
Independent State of Croatia by the
Axis Powers after the
April 6 invasion of
Yugoslavia during Operation Castigo.
*
1944 - Huge explosion rocks the
Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See:
Bombay Explosion (1944).
*
1956 -
Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now
National Association of Broadcasters NAB) convention in
Chicago, Illinois. It was the demonstation of the first practical and commercially successful format called
2" Quadruplex.
*
1962 -
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of
France.
*
1964 - A
Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at
Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
*
1965 - ''
In Cold Blood'' killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family of
Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary For Men in
Lansing, Kansas.
*
1969 - At the
Academy Awards, a tie between
Katharine Hepburn and
Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the
Academy Award for Best Actress Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
*
1970 - One of
Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled moon mission. The explosion occurred on April 13th in several time zones.
*
1981 - The
Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Columbia ''Columbia'' passes its first test flight.
*
1986 - In retaliation for the
April 5 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing bombing of the
La Belle (discotheque) La Belle Discotheque in
West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed,
Ronald Reagan ordered
Operation El Dorado Canyon major bombing raids against
Tripoli and
Benghazi, in
Libya, which killed 60 people.
*1986 - 2.2 lb (1 kg)
hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of
Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest
hailstones ever recorded.
*
1988 -
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) USS ''Samuel B. Roberts'' strikes a
naval mine 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 -
Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human
genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
*2003 -
Jean Charest's
Parti libéral du Québec defeats
Bernard Landry and the
Parti Québécois in
Quebec's general elections.
*2003 - The body of
Laci Peterson is found in
California.
Births
*
1336 -
Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d.
1374)
*
1527 -
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d.
1598)
*
1572 -
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d.
1632)
*
1578 - King
Philip III of Spain (d.
1621)
*
1629 -
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician & astronomer (d.
1695)
*
1714 -
Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d.
1788)
*
1788 -
David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d.
1870)
*
1827 -
Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist (d.
1900)
*
1868 -
Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d.
1940)
*
1872 -
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar and translator (d.
1953)
*
1886 -
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d.
1956)
*
1897 -
Claire Windsor, American actress (d.
1972)
*
1902 -
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian rabbi (d.
1994)
*
1904 - Sir
John Gielgud, English actor (d.
2000)
*
1907 -
François Duvalier, Haitian politician (d.
1971)
*
1917 -
Marvin Miller, American labor activist
*
1921 -
Thomas Schelling, American economist,
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Bank of Sweden Prize winner
*
1925 -
Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minster of Zimbabwe
*1925 -
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d.
1974)
*1925 -
Rod Steiger, American actor (d.
2002)
*
1930 -
Bradford Dillman, American actor
*
1933 -
Morton Subotnick, American composer
*
1935 -
Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
*
1936 -
Kenneth Mars, American actor
*1936 -
Frank Serpico, American policeman
*
1935 -
Loretta Lynn, American singer
*
1941 -
Julie Christie, British actress
*1941 -
Pete Rose, baseball player
*
1942 -
Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d.
2003)
*1942 -
Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
*
1945 -
Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
*
1949 -
John Shea, American actor
*
1951 -
Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer
*
1960 -
Brad Garrett, American actor
*
1961 -
Robert Carlyle, British actor
*
1964 -
Brian Adams (wrestler), American professional wrestler
*
1966 -
David Justice, baseball player
*1966 -
Greg Maddux, baseball player
*
1967 -
Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
*
1968 -
Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
*
1973 -
Adrien Brody, American actor
*
1974 -
Da Brat, American rapper
*
1975 -
Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
*
1977 -
Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
*
1980 -
Ben Wells, American actor
*
1981 -
Mary Castro, American model and actress
*
1983 -
Simon Burnett, British swimmer
*1983 -
James McFadden, Scottish footballer
Deaths
*
1132 - Prince
Mstislav of Kiev (b.
1076)
*
1279 - Duke
Boleslaus of Greater Poland
*
1322 -
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b.
1275)
*
1345 -
Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b.
1287)
*
1471 -
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b.
1428)
*
1574 -
Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b.
1538)
*
1578 -
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of
Mary I of Scotland
*
1599 -
Henry Wallop, English statesman
*
1662 -
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b.
1582)
*
1682 -
Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b.
1621)
*
1716 -
Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
*
1721 -
Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b.
1652)
*
1759 -
George Frideric Handel, German composer (b.
1685)
*
1785 -
William Whitehead, English writer (b.
1715)
*
1792 -
Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b.
1720)
*
1912 -
Henri Brisson, French statesman (b.
1835)
*
1914 -
Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b.
1855)
*
1917 -
L. L. Zamenhof Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b.
1859)
*
1925 -
John Singer Sargent, English artist (b.
1856)
*
1930 -
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b.
1893)
*
1935 -
Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b.
1882)
*
1964 -
Rachel Carson, American writer and environmentalist (b.
1907)
*
1968 -
Al Benton, baseball player (b.
1911)
*
1975 -
Fredric March, American actor (b.
1897)
*
1986 -
Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b.
1908)
*
1995 -
Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b.
1909)
*
1999 -
Ellen Corby, American actress (b.
1911)
*1999 -
Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b.
1931)
*
2000 -
Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b.
1962)
*
2001 -
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese 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
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BBC: On This Day
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Today in History: April 14
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April 13 -
April 15 -
March 14 -
May 14 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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