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 upto 19th century 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. 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 'Düppeler 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 20th century 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. 21st century 2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections 2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa. Births upto 19th century 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) 20th century 1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor (d. 2000) 1908 - Hermann Stahl, writer 1925 - Rod Steiger, actor (d. 2002) 1933 - Morton Subotnick, composer 1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer 1936 - Kenneth Mars, actor (The Little Mermaid, Tale Spin, Malcolm in the Middle) 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) 1968 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911) 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. 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