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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
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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 Pansa, who is killed.
- AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
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1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
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1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
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1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
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1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
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1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
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1864 - Battle at the Düppeler Schanzen : The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany.
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1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day.
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1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
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1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day.
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1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.
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1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
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1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
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1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
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1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
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1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
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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.
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1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight.
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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.
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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.
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2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections.
Births
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1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician (d. 1695)
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1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
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1827 - Augustus Pitt-Rivers, archaeologist (d. 1900)
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1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, scientist (d. 1896)
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1842 - Catherine Eddowes, fourth confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
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1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (d. 1940)
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1886 - Ernst Robert Curtius , romanist (d. 1956)
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1891/1892 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, politician (d. 1956)
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1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor (d. 2000)
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1908 - Hermann Stahl , writer
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1925 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002)
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1933 - Morton Subotnick, composer
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1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer
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1936 - Kenneth Mars, actor (The Little Mermaid, Tale Spin, Malcolm in the Middle)
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1940 - Loretta Lynn, country music singer
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1941 - Julie Christie, actress
- 1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player
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1942 - Valeri Brumel, athlete (d. 2003)
- 1942 - Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut
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1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist
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1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician
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1960 - Brad Garrett, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)
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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)
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1966 - Greg Maddux, baseball player
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1966 - David Justice, baseball player
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1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
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1973 - Adrien Brody, actor
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1974 - Da Brat, rap musician
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1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
Deaths
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1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
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1914 - Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)
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1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
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1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
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1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
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1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (b. 1882)
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1964 - Rachel Carson, American writer (b. 1907)
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1968 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
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1975 - Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
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1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs , educator and religious theorist
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1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
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1995 - Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (b. 1909)
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1999 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
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2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director (b. 1927)
Holidays and Observances
External links
April 13 - April 15 - March 14 - May 14 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 10-14-2005 21:45:53
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