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Apollo 13 mission patch
Damage to the Apollo 13 service module
"Black Sunday" dust storm
Bust of Septimius Severus
Edward IV of England
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Two-inch quadruplex videotape
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Noah Webster
John Wilkes Booth
Hailstones from the 1999 Sydney hailstorm
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Bengali New Year ,
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1434 – The foundation stone of the
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in
Nantes ,
Brittany , France, was first laid, but the building was not completed until more than four centuries later in 1891.
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1561 –
A mass sighting of celestial phenomena (depicted) occurred in
Nuremberg , Germany, where observers described an "aerial battle" between odd-shaped objects.
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1828 –
Lexicographer
Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his
dictionary of American English .
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1927 – The first
Volvo automobile was built in the factory in
Hisingen ,
Gothenburg , Sweden.
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1931 – After King
Alfonso XIII left Spain, the
Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a
provisional government led by
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora .
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1939 –
The Grapes of Wrath ,
John Steinbeck 's
Pulitzer Prize –winning novel and a major factor in his 1962
Nobel Prize award, was first published.
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1956 – The use of
2-inch quadruplex , the first practical and commercially successful
videotape format, was first demonstrated in public.
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2003 – The completion of the
Human Genome Project was announced.
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2007 – In
Ankara , Turkey, the first of the
Republic Protests took place, when hundreds of thousands of people protested against the possible
presidential candidacy of incumbent prime minister
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
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2010 – Plumes of ash from
a major eruption of the
Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to
widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days.
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John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu |d|1471
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N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa (
1949 )
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M. Visvesvaraya |d|1962
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Junko Sakurada |b|1958
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966 – Polish ruler
Mieszko I
converted to Christianity , an event considered to be the
founding of the Polish state .
1471 –
Wars of the Roses : The
Yorkists under
Edward IV defeated the
Lancastrians at the
Battle of Barnet , killing
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick .
1865 – Actor and
Confederate sympathizer
John Wilkes Booth
fatally shot U.S. president
Abraham Lincoln at
Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
1906 – The
Azusa Street Revival , the primary catalyst for the spread of
Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
1908 – The first
Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of
Montana failed, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.
1909 – Following
a reactionary military revolt against the
Committee of Union and Progress , a mob began
a massacre of Armenian Christians in the
Adana Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire .
1935 –
Dust Bowl :
A severe dust storm swept across
Oklahoma and northern
Texas , removing an estimated 300 million tons of
topsoil from the prairies.
1945 –
World War II : The German town of
Friesoythe
was razed by the
4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General
Christopher Vokes .
1967 – After leading a military coup three months earlier,
Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as
President of Togo , a post that he held until 2005.
1978 – Thousands of Georgians
demonstrated in
Tbilisi against an attempt by the
Supreme Soviet of the
Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the
Georgian language .
1999 –
A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of
hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of
New South Wales , causing about
A$ 2.3 billion in damages, the costliest
natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 people were killed in
an earthquake registering 6.9
Mw in
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , China.
2014 –
Boko Haram militants
kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in the town of
Chibok , Nigeria.
Born/died this day: |
Lucia Visconti |d|1424|
Christiaan Huygens |b|1629|
William Whitehead |d|1785|
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey |b|1819|
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton |b|1852|
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom |b|1857|
V. Gordon Childe |b|1892|
L. L. Zamenhof |d|1917|
Rod Steiger |b|1925|
Berry Berenson |b|1948|
Rachel Carson |d|1964|
Lita |b|1975|
Sarah Michelle Gellar |b|1977
Notes
April 14 :
Tamil New Year and
other New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia (2024);
Day of the Georgian Language (
1978 )
"Houston, we've had a problem here"
43 BC –
War of Mutina : Despite initial success, troops loyal to
Mark Antony
were defeated near the
Via Aemilia in northern Italy by legions loyal to the
Roman Senate .
1944 – The freighter
Fort Stikine , carrying cotton bales, gold and ammunition,
exploded in the harbour of
Bombay , India, sinking surrounding ships and causing about 800 deaths.
1970 – After an oxygen tank aboard
Apollo 13 exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and
life-support systems , astronaut
Jack Swigert reported: "
Houston, we've had a problem here " (audio featured) .
1983 –
Let's Dance , English musician
David Bowie 's best-selling album, was released.
1994 –
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict : In a
friendly-fire incident during
Operation Provide Comfort , two
U.S. Air Force aircraft
mistakenly shot down two
U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.