About April 14
April 14, 2024 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.
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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 290 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.
- 1205 –Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
- 1699 –Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
- 1849 –Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- 1865 –U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
- 1906 –The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1931 –First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 1931 –Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- 1935 –“Black Sunday Storm”, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
- 1944 –Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
- 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.
- 1988 –In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1991 –The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- 1999 –NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 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%.
- 2007 –At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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