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 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 1, 2016 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,460,592,000 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.
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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 289 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 1,210 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 14 Historical Events
- 1294 –Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
- 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.
- 1775 –The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- 1860 –The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1865 –U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
- 1927 –The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1931 –First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 1935 –“Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
Who were born on April 14?
- 1891 –B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d. 1956)
- 1929 –Gerry Anderson, English television producer
- 1945 –Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
- 1949 –John Shea, American actor
- 1957 –Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
- 1958 –John D'Aquino, American actor
- 1971 –Peter Gibson, American writer
- 1981 –Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
- 1983 –Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
- 1989 –Joe Haden, American football player
Who died on April 14?
- 1574 –Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)
- 1716 –Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
- 1950 –Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
- 1964 –Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
- 1975 –Günther Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer (b. 1886)
- 1983 –Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970 (b. 1920)
- 1984 –Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
- 1986 –Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
- 2007 –June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
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