April 14

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.

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.

Thursday 14, 1910:

President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first baseball on opening day.

Monday 14, 1028:

Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the Germans.

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.