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

• 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)

Holidays and Observances

April 13 - April 15 - March 14 - May 14 - more historical anniversaries