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, 484,608 hours 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.
• 1341 –
  Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
• 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.
• 1828 –
  Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
• 1865 –
  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1940 –
  World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
• 1967 –
  Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
• 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 –
  In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
• 2003 –
  U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.

Who were born on April 14?

• 1882 –
  Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
• 1907 –
  François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Haitian dictator (d. 1971)
• 1926 –
  Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1932 –
  Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1934 –
  Fredric Jameson, American philosopher, cultural theorist
• 1945 –
  Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
• 1950 –
  Francis Collins, American scientist, director of National Health Institutes
• 1966 –
  David Justice, American baseball player
• 1966 –
  Greg Maddux, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist

Who died on April 14?

• 1578 –
  James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1682 –
  Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621) (April 1 O.S.)
• 1785 –
  William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
• 1792 –
  Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720)
• 1935 –
  Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1975 –
  Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1995 –
  Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
• 2000 –
  Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 2001 –
  Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
• 2011 –
  Trevor Bannister, English actor (b. 1934)