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.
- 1028 –Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 1205 –Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1434 –The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
- 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.
- 1846 –The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- 1927 –The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1931 –First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1988 –In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
Who were born on April 14?
- 1870 –Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
- 1923 –Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golfer
- 1928 –Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
- 1941 –Julie Christie, British actress
- 1948 –Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1957 –Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
- 1967 –Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
- 1975 –Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
- 1975 –Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 –Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
Who died on April 14?
- 1132 –Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
- 1911 –Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
- 1912 –Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
- 1930 –Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
- 1935 –Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
- 1943 –Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest child of Stalin (b. 1907)
- 1994 –Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
- 1999 –Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2006 –Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
- 2007 –June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
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