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
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
- 1434 –The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
- 1471 –In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1828 –Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1849 –Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- 1881 –The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- 1890 –The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
- 1909 –A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
- 1912 –The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
- 1931 –First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1956 –In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 1986 –1 kg hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 1988 –In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1988 –The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
- 2002 –Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
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