What happened on April 14? There are more than 276 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 14
April 14 is the 105th day of the year 2024. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 15th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina 28512 sunrise occured at 06:34 AM and sunset occured at 07:40 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 290 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 14
- 43 BCBattle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
- 69Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 70Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 966After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1028Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 1205Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1294Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
- 1341Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- 1434The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
- 1471In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
- 1639Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year’s War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
- 1699Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
- 1775The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- 1816Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
- 1828Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1846The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- 1849Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- 1860The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1865U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
- 1865U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
- 1881The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1890The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1894The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1906The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1909A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
- 1912The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
- 1927The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1931First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 1931Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- 1935“Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
- 1939The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- 1940World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- 1941World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.
- 1944Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
- 1945Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
- 1956In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1958The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
- 1967Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- 1969At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- 19781978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1981STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- 19861 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 1986In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
- 1988In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1988The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
- 1991The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- 1999A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- 1999NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 2002Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
- 2003The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2003U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
- 2005The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- 2007At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
- 2010Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Who Were Born On April 14?
- 1336Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
- 1572Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
- 1578King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
- 1629Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician (d. 1695)
- 1668Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General (d. 1741)
- 1714Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
- 1738William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
- 1741Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
- 1773Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (d. 1854)
- 1788David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
- 1800John George Appold, fur dyer and engineer (d. 1865)
- 1814Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer (d. 1887)
- 1818Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
- 1827Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
- 1857Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Consort (d. 1944)
- 1866Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s teacher (d. 1936)
- 1868Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
- 1870Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
- 1870Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
- 1872Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
- 1881Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (d. 1948)
- 1882Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
- 1886Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet (d. 1928)
- 1886Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- 1889Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
- 1891B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d. 1956)
- 1892Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist (d. 1957)
- 1897Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1902Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
- 1903Henry Corbin, French philosopher and iranologist (d. 1978)
- 1904Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1905Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
- 1907François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Haitian dictator (d. 1971)
- 1916Don Willesee, Australian politician (d. 2003)
- 1917Marvin Miller, American labor activist
- 1917Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
- 1918Mary Healy, American actress
- 1921Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1923Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golfer
- 1924Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
- 1925Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2010)
- 1925Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
- 1925Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1926Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
- 1926Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1927Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
- 1927Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
- 1928Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
- 1929Gerry Anderson, English television producer
- 1930Bradford Dillman, American actor
- 1930René Desmaison, French mountaineer (d. 2007)
- 1931Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1932Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1932Loretta Lynn, American country musician/singer
- 1933Boris Kolar, Croatian animator
- 1933Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
- 1934Fredric Jameson, American philosopher, cultural theorist
- 1935Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
- 1936Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
- 1936Frank Serpico, American policeman
- 1936Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1941Julie Christie, British actress
- 1941Pete Rose, American baseball player
- 1942Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
- 1942Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1944John Sergeant, British journalist
- 1945Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
- 1945Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
- 1946Mireille Guiliano, French-American author
- 1948Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1949Chris Langham, British actor, writer, producer, director
- 1949DeAnne Julius, American/English economist
- 1949John Shea, American actor
- 1950Francis Collins, American scientist, director of National Health Institutes
- 1950Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer
- 1951José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician
- 1951Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
- 1952Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
- 1953David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
- 1954Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
- 1957Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
- 1957Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
- 1957Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
- 1958John D'Aquino, American actor
- 1958Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
- 1960Brad Garrett, American actor
- 1961Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter
- 1961Robert Carlyle, British actor
- 1962Scott Boman, American politician
- 1964Gina McKee, British actress
- 1964Greg Battle, Canadian football player
- 1965Kirk Windstein, American guitarist (Crowbar, Down)
- 1965Tom Dey, American film director
- 1966André Boisclair, Quebec politician (Parti Québécois)
- 1966David Justice, American baseball player
- 1966Greg Maddux, American baseball player
- 1967Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Barrett Martin, American drummer and composer
- 1967Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
- 1968Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
- 1969Brad Ausmus, American baseball player
- 1969Mark Macon, American basketball player
- 1969Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
- 1969Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
- 1970Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
- 1970Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer
- 1970Steve Avery, American baseball player
- 1971Gregg Zaun, American baseball player
- 1971Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer
- 1971Peter Gibson, American writer
- 1972Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
- 1972Roberto Mejia, Dominican baseball player
- 1973Adrien Brody, American actor
- 1973David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
- 1973Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
- 1974Da Brat (Shawntae Harris), American rapper
- 1975Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
- 1975Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
- 1975Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1975Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
- 1975Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
- 1975Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
- 1975Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress
- 1976Anna DeForge, American basketball player
- 1976Christian Älvestam, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
- 1976Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
- 1977Chandra Levy, American intern (d. 2001)
- 1977Rob McElhenney, American actor
- 1977Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
- 1978Paul O'Brien, Australian actor
- 1979Marios Elia, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1979Noé Pamarot, French footballer
- 1979Rebecca DiPietro, American model
- 1979Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
- 1980Claire Coffee, American actress
- 1980Kieran Mahon, British musician (The Cooper Temple Clause)
- 1980Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
- 1981Amy Leach, British theatre director
- 1981Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
- 1982Mahii Vij, Indian dialy soap actress
- 1983James McFadden, Scottish footballer
- 1983Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
- 1983William Obeng, Ghanaian/American football player
- 1984Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1984Blake Costanzo, American football player
- 1984Charles Hamelin, Canadian short track speed skater
- 1984Tyler Thigpen, American football player
- 1985Grant Clitsome,Canadian Hockey Player
- 1986Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
- 1986Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
- 1986Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
- 1987Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
- 1987Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (d. 2011)
- 1988Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
- 1989Dafina Zeqiri, Kosovan-Swedish singer
- 1989Joe Haden, American football player
- 1993Graham Phillips, American actor
- 1993Vivien Cardone, American actress
- 1996Abigail Breslin, American actress
Who Died On April 14?
- 1132Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
- 1279Bolesław the Pious
- 1322Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
- 1345Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
- 1471Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
- 1574Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)
- 1578James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
- 1599Henry Wallop, English statesman
- 1662William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
- 1682Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621) (April 1 O.S.)
- 1716Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
- 1721Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
- 1759George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
- 1785William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
- 1792Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720)
- 1864Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (b. 1777)
- 1910Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
- 1911Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1911Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
- 1912Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
- 1914Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
- 1917L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
- 1925John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856)
- 1930Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
- 1935Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
- 1941Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
- 1943Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest child of Stalin (b. 1907)
- 1950Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
- 1963Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, (b. 1893)
- 1964Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
- 1964Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
- 1965Dick Hickock (b. 1933) and Perry Smith (b. 1928) American murderers
- 1968Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1975Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
- 1975Günther Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer (b. 1886)
- 1976José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
- 1978Joe Gordon, American baseball player (b. 1915)
- 1983Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970 (b. 1920)
- 1983Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
- 1984Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
- 1985Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919
- 1986Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
- 1990Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
- 1994Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
- 1995Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
- 1999Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
- 1999Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2000Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
- 2000Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
- 2000Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
- 2001Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
- 2001Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
- 2004Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
- 2006Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
- 2007Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
- 2007June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
- 2008Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
- 2008Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney’s Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
- 2008Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2010Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
- 2011Trevor Bannister, English actor (b. 1934)
- 2011Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
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