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

   * 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius
     Caesar's assassin 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
   * 1986 - The United States bombs Libya in retaliation for Libyan
     sponsorship of terrorism against United States citizens
   * 1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and
     Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the 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

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)
   * 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist
   * 1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician
   * 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)
   * 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)

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