About April 14
April 14, 2025 is the 104th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 309 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 14
- 69 –Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 1341 –Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
- 1699 –Khalsa: 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.
- 1860 –The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1865 –U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
- 1890 –The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1894 –The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1912 –The 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.
- 1927 –The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1931 –Spanish 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.
- 1939 –The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- 1940 –World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- 1958 –The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
- 1967 –Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- 1978 –1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1986 –1 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2010 –Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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