About April 14
April 14, 2023 is the 104th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 302 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.
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 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.
- 1846 –The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
- 1849 –Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- 1860 –The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 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 –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.
- 1939 –The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
- 1945 –Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1967 –Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
- 1969 –At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
- 1986 –1 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 1999 –NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
- 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.
- 2005 –The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
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