About April 14
April 14, 2024 is the 105th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 290 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 14
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 1028 –Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 1205 –Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1471 –In 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.
- 1828 –Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 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.
- 1881 –The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1890 –The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1931 –Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- 1941 –World 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.
- 1944 –Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 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.
- 1969 –At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- 1986 –In 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.
- 1988 –In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1994 –In 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.
- 1999 –NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 2010 –Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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