Notable Historical Events on April 14th
April 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
43 |
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. |
BC AD | |
193 |
Lucius Septimus Severus crowned Emperor of Rome |
754 |
Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte |
966 |
Christianisation of Poland |
972 |
Notger becomes bishop of Liege |
979 |
Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England |
1028 |
German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king |
1191 |
85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III |
1341 |
Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo. |
1434 |
The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid. |
1471 |
Battle of Barnet - King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick |
1536 |
English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries |
1544 |
Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss |
1570 |
Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits |
1574 |
Battle of Mookerhei - D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau |
1611 |
Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi) |
1629 |
England & France sign Peace of Susa |
1671 |
Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin |
1699 |
Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar. |
1756 |
Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians |
1775 |
1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila |
1777 |
NY adopts new constitution as an independent state |
1792 |
France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars |
1818 |
US Medical Corp forms |
1828 |
18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard |
1828 |
First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication |
1831 |
Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse. |
1836 |
Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin |
1841 |
Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" published |
1847 |
Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum |
1849 |
Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. |
1860 |
1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo |
1861 |
Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter (US Civil War) |
1862 |
Battle of Ft Pillow TN |
1863 |
William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press |
1865 |
Mobile, Alabama is captured |
1865 |
US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting |
1865 |
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell. |
1865 |
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater |
1868 |
SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228 |
1871 |
Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills |
1872 |
Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act |
1872 |
San Francisco organizes Bar Association |
1881 |
The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas. |
1883 |
Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris |
1887 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG) |
1890 |
Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC) |
1894 |
1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures) |
1895 |
1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony |
1900 |
Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms |
1903 |
Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC) |
1904 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" premiered in London |
1906 |
US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress |
1909 |
Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London |
1910 |
President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day |
1910 |
Pan American Union forms |
1912 |
RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland |
1913 |
Belgium begins general strike for voting rights |
1914 |
Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern |
1915 |
A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter |
1915 |
Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo |
1915 |
The Turks invade Armenia. |
1917 |
Chicago White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0 |
1918 |
Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) |
1920 |
Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi |
1921 |
NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games |
1921 |
Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route |
1922 |
Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin |
1923 |
Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters |
1925 |
1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN) |
1927 |
The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
1928 |
Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA |
1928 |
Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2 |
1930 |
Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII |
1931 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2 |
1932 |
Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres in Monte Carlo |
1935 |
Black Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates the Dust Bowl) |
1939 |
John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published |
1940 |
Allied troops land in Norway |
1940 |
RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia |
1941 |
1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up |
1941 |
King Peter leaves Yugoslavia |
1942 |
Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast |
1943 |
Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis |
1943 |
James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC |
1944 |
1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz |
1944 |
Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 |
1944 |
Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet |
1944 |
Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government |
1945 |
American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace |
1945 |
Arnhem/Zwolle freed from Nazis |
1945 |
WWII: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany |
1945 |
US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
1945 |
US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa |
1946 |
"Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs |
1946 |
Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR |
1948 |
A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon |
1948 |
NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents |
1948 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
1948 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1949 |
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment |
1950 |
1st edition of British comic "Eagle" |
1950 |
Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands |
1953 |
Viet-Minh offensive in Laos |
1953 |
WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins |
1954 |
Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra |
1955 |
Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform |
1955 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3 |
1955 |
WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
"Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs |
1956 |
Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder |
1957 |
Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship |
1957 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
1958 |
Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere |
1959 |
(Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC |
1959 |
KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
"Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances |
1960 |
1st underwater launching of Polaris missile |
1960 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games |
1961 |
1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union |
1961 |
Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua |
1961 |
US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered |
1962 |
Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam |
1962 |
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré |
1963 |
George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones" |
1964 |
Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk |
1965 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
General Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes president of Togo |
1967 |
In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time |
1967 |
Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at |
1967 |
Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch |
1968 |
1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers |
1968 |
32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277 |
1968 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open |
1968 |
Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card |
1969 |
1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada) |
1969 |
41st Academy Awards - "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn/Barbara Striesand win |
1969 |
KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College |
1969 |
Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540 |
1970 |
"Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances |
1971 |
Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site |
1971 |
President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China |
1971 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies" premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation |
1972 |
"That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1972 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal |
1974 |
38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278 |
1977 |
Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license |
1978 |
David Hare's "Plenty" premieres in London |
1978 |
Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia |
1978 |
WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM |
1978 |
1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. |
1979 |
Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year |
1980 |
1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida |
1980 |
52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win |
1980 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) |
1981 |
1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth |
1983 |
Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger |
1983 |
President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue |
1983 |
Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
1984 |
Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth |
1985 |
"Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1985 |
49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282 |
1985 |
Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09) |
1985 |
Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru |
1985 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
1985 |
Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot |
1985 |
Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2 |
1985 |
Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart |
1986 |
21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire |
1986 |
Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
1986 |
Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200 |
1986 |
US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya |
1987 |
Turkey asks to join European market |
1988 |
"Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances |
1988 |
Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2 |
1988 |
USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty |
1989 |
1,100,000,000th Chinese born |
1989 |
In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury |
1991 |
"Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs |
1991 |
"Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC |
1991 |
55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277 |
1991 |
Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars) |
1992 |
"Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances |
1992 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester |
1992 |
Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft |
1992 |
UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc |
1992 |
UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect |
1994 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer |
1994 |
NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points |
1994 |
US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die |
1994 |
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript |
1995 |
India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah |
1995 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship |
1996 |
"Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance |
1996 |
60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276 |
1996 |
Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games |
1999 |
NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed. |
1999 |
A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history. |
2000 |
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs. |
2002 |
66th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win in two consecutive years |
2002 |
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military. |
2003 |
The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%. |
2003 |
U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985. |
2005 |
The U.S. Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County. |
2007 |
At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
2008 |
42nd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Trace Adkins wins |
2010 |
Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier |
2013 |
20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia |
2013 |
33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru |
2013 |
11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China |
2013 |
77th Golf Masters Championship: Adam Scott wins, shooting a 279 |
2013 |
Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada |
2016 |
Kobe Bryant: NBA All-Star scores 60 points in final game |
2016 |
Video appears to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped girls alive |
2016 |
Golden State Warriors: 73rd win breaks Chicago Bulls' NBA record |
2016 |
US health experts confirm that Zika causes birth defects |
2016 |
US Navy video captures "aggressive" Russian flyby |
2016 |
Texas 'affluenza' teen jailed for two years |
2016 |
40000 Verizon workers go on strike |
2017 |
Trump says North Korea problem 'will be taken care of' |
2017 |
US unleashes 'mother of all bombs' for first time in Afghanistan |
2017 |
Trump Signs Law Giving States Option To Deny Funding For Planned Parenthood |
2017 |
200 Years Ago, The Word's First Rollercoaster Debuted In Paris |
2018 |
Trump orders strike on Syria in response to chemical attack |
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