About April 14
April 14, 2025 is the 104th 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 14
- 966 –After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1028 –Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
- 1294 –Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1881 –The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1894 –The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1940 –World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- 1941 –World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.
- 1945 –Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1978 –1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1981 –STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- 1986 –1 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 1991 –The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2005 –The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- 2010 –Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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