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
- 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.
- 69 –Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1828 –Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1860 –The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1890 –The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 1969 –At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- 1981 –STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
- 1988 –In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1994 –In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- 2002 –Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
- 2003 –The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 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.
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