What happened this day in history April 14

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

  • 43 BC
    Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
  • 69
    Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
  • 1028
    Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
  • 1205
    Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
  • 1294
    Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
  • 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.
  • 1931
    Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
  • 1981
    STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
  • 1988
    In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
  • 2005
    The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

Who were born on April 14?

  • 1578
    King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
  • 1738
    William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
  • 1936
    Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
  • 1950
    Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer
  • 1964
    Greg Battle, Canadian football player
  • 1971
    Gregg Zaun, American baseball player
  • 1975
    Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress
  • 1979
    Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1980
    Claire Coffee, American actress
  • 1986
    Matt Derbyshire, English footballer

Who died on April 14?

  • 1471
    Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
  • 1599
    Henry Wallop, English statesman
  • 1662
    William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
  • 1682
    Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621) (April 1 O.S.)
  • 1941
    Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
  • 1943
    Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest child of Stalin (b. 1907)
  • 1968
    Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
  • 1975
    Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
  • 1990
    Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
  • 1999
    Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)

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