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April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
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- 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum . Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
- 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
- 1450Events March French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 Battle of Formigny. French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and - Battle of FormignyThe Battle of Formigny ( April 15, 1450) was a clash of the Hundred Years' War. A decisive victory for the French. The French, under Charles VII, had taken the time offered by the Truce of Tours to reorganize and reinvigorate their armies. The English, wi. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
- 1632See also: 1632 (novel Events February 22 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published July 23 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe. November 16 Battle of Lutzen Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axe - Battle of RainIn 1632 the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War., SwedesThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman EmpireThe Holy Roman Empire ( German: Heiliges Romisches Reich was a political conglomeration of lands in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages. Emerging from the eastern part of the Frankish realm after its division in the Treaty of Verdun ( 843), it l during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
- 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
- 1864 - Battle at the 'Düppeler Schanzen' . The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day
- 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies
- 1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day
- 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.
- 1914 - The town of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
- 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic
- 1935 -Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl
- 1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
- 1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
- 1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight
- 1986 - In retaliation for the bombing of a West Berlin night club where a U.S. serviceman was killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, that killed 60 people.
- 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
- 2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections
- 2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa.
