April 14

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.

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