Historical Events on April 14

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• 754 Pact of Quierzy: Pope Stephen II and Pippin de Korte, King of France confirm support of previous peace treaties between Romans and Lombards and laying groundwork for establishment of the Papal States
• 966 Christianisation of Poland - Polish ruler Mieszko I and his court baptized
• 972 Notger becomes bishop of Liege
• 978 Ethelred II crowned King of England at 10 years old, after the murder of his half brother Edward, possibly arranged by his mother
• 979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
• 1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
• 1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
• 1341 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo
• 1361 Henry of Grosmont, the richest peer in England, is buried at the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Newarke, Leicester, with the royal family in attendance
• 1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid
• 1471 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Barnet - Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians and kill the Earl of Warwick

• 1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
• 1570 Polish Calvinists, Lutherans and Hernhutters unify against Jesuits

• 1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
• 1629 England and France sign Peace of Susa
• 1671 Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin
• 1699 Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
• 1756 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians
• 1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia
• 1818 US Medical Corps forms
• 1828 British 18-gun sloop HMS Acorn sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard

• 1831 Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
• 1836 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin

• 1847 Persia & Ottoman Turkey sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
• 1849 Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader

• 1862 Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee
• 1863 American inventor William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press

• 1868 SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
• 1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
• 1872 Dominion Lands Act passed: Canada's Homestead Act
• 1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association
• 1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight in El Paso, Texas.
• 1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres with the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris, France
• 1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington, D.C.)

• 1896 US Patent Office issues Patent No. 558,393 to Dr John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan for "flaked cereal, and process of making same"
• 1900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms

• 1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
• 1910 Pan American Union forms

• 1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
• 1914 Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes Typhus Fever at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City

• 1915 A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
• 1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
• 1915 Turkey invades Armenia
• 1917 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
• 1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
• 1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
• 1922 Irish Republican Army rebels occupy the Four Courts (government buildings) in Dublin
• 1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
• 1925 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
• 1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
• 1928 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: In only their 2nd season in the NHL, New York Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 2-1 for a 3-2 series win
• 1930 Philip Barry's play "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC

• 1932 World's first particle accelerator built by Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft performs the first artificial nuclear fission with Lithium at Cambridge University [1]
• 1935 Black Sunday dust storm ravages the US Midwest, leading to the region being named the "Dust Bowl"

• 1940 Allied troops land in Norway
• 1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
• 1941 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
• 1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
• 1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast

• 1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC

• 1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
• 1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
• 1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
• 1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
• 1945 US Marines attack Yae-Take, the tallest mountain on Okinawa's Motobu Peninsula
• 1945 World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
• 1948 A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
• 1948 NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents
• 1948 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Toronto Maple Leafs go back-to-back with a 7-2 win over Detroit Red Wings for a 4-0 series sweep
• 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
• 1949 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
• 1950 1st edition of British comic "Eagle"
• 1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
• 1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
• 1953 WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
• 1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra

• 1955 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings win back-to-back titles; beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1 for a 4-3 series victory
• 1955 WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
• 1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship

• 1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, Iowa (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile

• 1960 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-0 for a 4 game sweep; 5th consecutive title
• 1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
• 1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
• 1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
• 1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New Guinea in Amsterdam

• 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1968 First NBA game at New York's iconic Madison Square Garden; NY Knicks beat San Diego Rockets, 114-102

• 1969 First regular-season MLB game played outside the United States; Montreal Expos beat St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7 at Parc Jarry, Montreal
• 1969 KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
• 1969 Tornado strikes Dacca, East Pakistan killing 540
• 1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site

• 1971 US Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
• 1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
• 1973 Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
• 1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
• 1978 David Hare's play "Plenty" premieres in London
• 1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
• 1978 Thousands of Georgians demonstrate in the capital Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language
• 1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
• 1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
• 1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida

• 1981 The first Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth after 2 days and 6 hours in space

• 1983 NY Islanders tie own record with 2 shorthanded playoff goals (vs NY Rangers)

• 1984 Farewell concert of Dutch pop-ska band Doe Maar at Maasport in Den Bosch, Netherlands
• 1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
• 1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
• 1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
• 1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st playoff penalty shot
• 1985 Jack C. Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart

• 1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
• 1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
• 1987 Turkey asks to join European market
• 1988 NHL playoffs: New Jersey Devils win 6-5 over NY Islanders to take 1st round 4-2
• 1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
• 1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born

• 1991 Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
• 1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
• 1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
• 1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect

• 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

• 1994 NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points

• 1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
• 1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
• 1996 Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games
• 1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 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

• 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 Achille Lauro in 1985
• 2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County

• 2010 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier

• 2013 11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China
• 2013 20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
• 2013 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru

• 2015 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans

• 2017 Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 26

• 2018 National Gardening Day, since 2018 and according to the National Day Calendar
• 2018 US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack
• 2019 11 tornadoes hit US southern states killing eight in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana

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