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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