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

• 1205 –
  Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
• 1639 –
  Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year’s War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
• 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.
• 1849 –
  Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
• 1865 –
  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1894 –
  The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• 1935 –
  “Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
• 1999 –
  NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
• 2002 –
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
• 2010 –
  Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.

Who were born on April 14?

• 1882 –
  Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
• 1923 –
  Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golfer
• 1933 –
  Boris Kolar, Croatian animator
• 1933 –
  Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
• 1950 –
  Francis Collins, American scientist, director of National Health Institutes
• 1973 –
  Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
• 1975 –
  Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1975 –
  Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 –
  Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 –
  Mahii Vij, Indian dialy soap actress

Who died on April 14?

• 1911 –
  Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1912 –
  Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
• 1917 –
  L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
• 1930 –
  Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
• 1941 –
  Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
• 1964 –
  Rachel Carson, American author and environmentalist (b. 1907)
• 1975 –
  Günther Dyhrenfurth, Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer (b. 1886)
• 1990 –
  Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
• 2001 –
  Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)