What are the important events that happened on April 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 14 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 1, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,713,052,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,132 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 14 Historical Events
- 1028 –Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 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.
- 1816 –Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
- 1828 –Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1906 –The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 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.
- 1939 –The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on April 14?
- 1738 –William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
- 1886 –Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- 1930 –Bradford Dillman, American actor
- 1936 –Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
- 1954 –Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
- 1968 –Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
- 1971 –Peter Gibson, American writer
- 1975 –Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1984 –Tyler Thigpen, American football player
- 1993 –Graham Phillips, American actor
Who died on April 14?
- 1662 –William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
- 1917 –L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
- 1930 –Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
- 1950 –Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
- 1964 –Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
- 1983 –Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
- 2000 –Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
- 2008 –Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney’s Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
- 2011 –Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
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