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 104^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 1, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,744,588,800 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 ‘hectatetragon’ 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 309 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 4,497 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 14 Historical Events

• 1434 –
  The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1890 –
  The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• 1935 –
  “Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1999 –
  A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

Who were born on April 14?

• 1926 –
  Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
• 1933 –
  Boris Kolar, Croatian animator
• 1941 –
  Pete Rose, American baseball player
• 1949 –
  John Shea, American actor
• 1954 –
  Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
• 1964 –
  Gina McKee, British actress
• 1968 –
  Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
• 1972 –
  Roberto Mejia, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 –
  Claire Coffee, American actress
• 1986 –
  Matt Derbyshire, English footballer

Who died on April 14?

• 1785 –
  William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
• 1910 –
  Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
• 1943 –
  Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest child of Stalin (b. 1907)
• 1963 –
  Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, (b. 1893)
• 1975 –
  Günther Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer (b. 1886)
• 1984 –
  Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
• 2000 –
  Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
• 2004 –
  Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
• 2006 –
  Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
• 2008 –
  Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)