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

• 69 –
  Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
• 1294 –
  Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
• 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.
• 1849 –
  Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
• 1860 –
  The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
• 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.
• 1935 –
  “Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
• 1969 –
  At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
• 1986 –
  1 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
• 2005 –
  The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

Who were born on April 14?

• 1336 –
  Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1882 –
  Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
• 1889 –
  Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
• 1931 –
  Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 –
  Francis Collins, American scientist, director of National Health Institutes
• 1953 –
  David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
• 1969 –
  Mark Macon, American basketball player
• 1972 –
  Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
• 1973 –
  David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
• 1984 –
  Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)

Who died on April 14?

• 1322 –
  Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
• 1345 –
  Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
• 1471 –
  Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
• 1864 –
  Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (b. 1777)
• 1910 –
  Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
• 1943 –
  Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest child of Stalin (b. 1907)
• 1964 –
  Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
• 1978 –
  Joe Gordon, American baseball player (b. 1915)
• 1994 –
  Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 2004 –
  Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)