April, 14th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Monday 14, 2003:
Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections.

Thursday 14, 1988:
USS Samuel B. Roberts 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.

Monday 14, 1986:
2.2 lb (1kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.

Tuesday 14, 1981:
The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight.

Monday 14, 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.

Wednesday 14, 1965:
In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary For Men in Lansing, Kansas.

Tuesday 14, 1964:
A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Canaveral, killing 3.

Saturday 14, 1962:
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.

Saturday 14, 1956:
Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It was the demonstation of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.

Friday 14, 1944:
Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944).

Sunday 14, 1940:
Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.

Sunday 14, 1935:
Babe Ruth played his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox, in this, his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this season, Ruth played 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.

Tuesday 14, 1931:
Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.

Sunday 14, 1912:
The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.

Thursday 14, 1910:
President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first baseball on opening day.

Saturday 14, 1894:
Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.

Monday 14, 1890:
1890 - The Pan American Union was founded by the First International Conference of American States at their meeting in Washington. Known originally as the International Bureau of American Republics, William Elleroy Curtis became its first director.

Friday 14, 1865:
Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day.

Thursday 14, 1864:
Battle at the Düppeler Schanzen: The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany.

Sunday 14, 1861:
At the start of the American Civil War, the battle of Fort Sumter ended after the Confederates under Beuaregard bombarded the fort with 4,000 shells. The first causualty of the Civil War died when his cannon backfired.

Saturday 14, 1860:
The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

Saturday 14, 1849:
Hungary declared itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.

Monday 14, 1828:
Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

Friday 14, 1775:
The first abolition society in the North America was established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" was organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

Wednesday 14, 1632:
Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

Friday 14, 1471:
In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick was killed and Edward IV resumed the throne.

Sunday 14, 1450:
Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.

Thursday 14, 1205:
Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.

Monday 14, 1028:
Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the Germans.

Sunday 14, 69:
Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.

Sunday 14, -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.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-april/on-this-day.html


People born on April 14

1977:
Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress (b: April 14, 1977) (Biography of Sarah Michelle Gellar)

1975:
Amy Dumas, Professional Wrestler (b: April 14, 1975) (Biography of Amy Dumas)
Tom Haynes, American Software Engineer (b: April 14, 1975) (Biography of Tom Haynes)

1974:
Da Brat, American rapper (b: April 14, 1974) (Biography of Da Brat)

1973:
Adrien Brody, American actor (b: April 14, 1973) (Biography of Adrien Brody)

1968:
Anthony Michael Hall, American actor (b: April 14, 1968) (Biography of Anthony Michael Hall)

1966:
Greg Maddux, baseball player (b: April 14, 1966) (Biography of Greg Maddux)
David Justice, baseball player (b: April 14, 1966) (Biography of David Justice)

1961:
Robert Carlyle, British actor (b: April 14, 1961) (Biography of Robert Carlyle)

1960:
Brad Garrett, American actor (b: April 14, 1960) (Biography of Brad Garrett)

1951:
Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer (b: April 14, 1951) (Biography of Julian Lloyd Webber)

1949:
John Shea, American actor (b: April 14, 1949) (Biography of John Shea)

1945:
Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (b: April 14, 1945) (Biography of Ritchie Blackmore)

1942:
Valeri Brumel, Russian athlete (b: April 14, 1942) (Biography of Valeri Brumel)
Valentin Lebedev, cosmonaut (b: April 14, 1942) (Biography of Valentin Lebedev)

1941:
Julie Christie, British actress (b: April 14, 1941) (Biography of Julie Christie)
Pete Rose, baseball player (b: April 14, 1941) (Biography of Pete Rose)

1940:
Loretta Lynn, American singer (b: April 14, 1940) (Biography of Loretta Lynn)

1936:
Kenneth Mars, American actor (b: April 14, 1936) (Biography of Kenneth Mars)
Frank Serpico, American policeman (b: April 14, 1936) (Biography of Frank Serpico)

1935:
Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer (b: April 14, 1935) (Biography of Erich von Däniken)

1933:
Morton Subotnick, American composer (b: April 14, 1933) (Biography of Morton Subotnick)

1930:
Bradford Dillman, American actor (b: April 14, 1930) (Biography of Bradford Dillman)

1925:
Rod Steiger, American actor (b: April 14, 1925 ; d: July 9, 2002) (Biography of Rod Steiger)
Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minster of Zimbabwe (b: April 14, 1925) (Biography of Abel Muzorewa)

1917:
Marvin Miller, American labor activist (b: April 14, 1917) (Biography of Marvin Miller)

1907:
François Duvalier, Haitian politician (b: April 14, 1907 ; d: April 21, 1971) (Biography of François Duvalier)

1904:
Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b: April 14, 1904 ; d: May 21, 2000) (Biography of John Gielgud)

1902:
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian rabbi (b: April 14, 1902) (Biography of Menachem Mendel Schneerson)

1897:
Claire Windsor, American actress (b: April 14, 1897 ; d: October 24, 1972) (Biography of Claire Windsor)

1886:
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b: April 14, 1886 ; d: April 19, 1950) (Biography of Ernst Robert Curtius)

1868:
Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (b: April 14, 1868) (Biography of Peter Behrens)

1827:
Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist (b: April 14, 1827) (Biography of Augustus Pitt-Rivers)

1788:
David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (b: April 14, 1788) (Biography of David G. Burnet)

1629:
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician (b: April 14, 1629 ; d: July 8, 1695) (Biography of Christiaan Huygens)

1578:
King Philip III of Spain (b: April 14, 1578 ; d: March 31, 1621) (Biography of Philip III of Spain)

1572:
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b: April 14, 1572 ; d: May 25, 1632) (Biography of Adam Tanner)

1527:
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b: April 14, 1527 ; d: August 1, 1598) (Biography of Abraham Ortelius)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-april/births.html

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People who died on April 14

2001:
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b: January 28, 1927 ; d: April 14, 2001) (Biography of Hiroshi Teshigahara)

2000:
Phil Katz (d: April 14, 2000) (Biography of Phil Katz)

1999:
Anthony Newley, British actor, singer (b: September 24, 1931 ; d: April 14, 1999) (Biography of Anthony Newley)
Ellen Corby, American actress (b: June 3, 1911 ; d: April 14, 1999) (Biography of Ellen Corby)

1995:
Burl Ives, American musician (b: June 14, 1909 ; d: April 14, 1995) (Biography of Burl Ives)

1986:
Simone de Beauvoir, French author (b: January 9, 1908 ; d: April 14, 1986) (Biography of Simone de Beauvoir)

1975:
Fredric March, American actor (b: August 31, 1897 ; d: April 14, 1975) (Biography of Fredric March)

1968:
Al Benton, baseball player (b: March 18, 1918 ; d: April 14, 1968) (Biography of Al Benton)

1935:
Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b: March 23, 1882 ; d: April 14, 1935) (Biography of Emmy Noether)

1930:
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian poet (b: July 19, 1893 ; d: April 14, 1930) (Biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky)

1925:
John Singer Sargent, American artist (b: January 12, 1856 ; d: April 14, 1925) (Biography of John Singer Sargent)

1917:
L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (b: December 15, 1859 ; d: April 14, 1917) (Biography of L. L. Zamenhof)

1914:
Hubert Bland, English socialist (b: January 3, 1855 ; d: April 14, 1914) (Biography of Hubert Bland)

1759:
Georg Friedrich Handel (d: April 14, 1759) (Biography of Georg Friedrich Handel)

1721:
Michel Chamillart (d: April 14, 1721) (Biography of Michel Chamillart)

1716:
Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington (d: April 14, 1716) (Biography of Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington)

1662:
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b: May 28, 1582 ; d: April 14, 1662) (Biography of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele)

1599:
Henry Wallop (d: April 14, 1599) (Biography of Henry Wallop)

1578:
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (d: April 14, 1578) (Biography of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell)

1574:
Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (b: January 10, 1538 ; d: April 14, 1574) (Biography of Louis of Nassau)

1471:
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (d: April 14, 1471) (Biography of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-april/deaths.html