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Today in
History ~ April 14
Events
0193 - Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
0979 - Challenge to throne of King Ethelred II of England
1191 - 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1471 - Battle of Barnet -- King Edward IV trounces Earl of Warwick
1536 - English king Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1570 - Polish Calvinists/Lutherans/Hernhutters unite against Jesuits
1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe
1756 - Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 - 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia
1777 - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 - Napoleon calls for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 - Napoleon defeats Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1814 - Napoleon abdicates & is banished to Elba
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1828 - 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published
1853 - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1859 - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published
1860 - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
1861 - Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1861 - Col. Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1863 - William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 - Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 - Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth [H]
1883 - Leo Delibes' opera "Lakme," premieres in Paris
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires"
1894 - 1st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1896 - John Philip Sousa's opera, "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
1900 - The Paris Universal Exposition was inaugurated by French President Emile Loubet.
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
1903 - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1912 - RMS Titanic hits iceberg [H]
1920 - Tornadoes kill 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1922 - Irish Republic rebels occupy 4 government courts in Dublin
1930 - Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1931 - Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1932 - Bizet's, Massine's & Miro's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 - Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1939 - John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 - Allied troops land in Norway
1940 - RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 - 1st massive Nazi sweep in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1942 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 off US east coast
1944 - 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 - Gen Eisenhower becomes commander of allied air fleet
1945 - American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
1945 - US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 - US forces conqueres Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1949 - International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
1953 - Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1956 - "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
1956 - Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1960 - "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1960 - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1961 - Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1967 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time
1969 - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 - Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1971 - Supreme Court upholds busing to achieve racial desegregation
1973 - Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1977 - Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1980 - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
1986 - Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 - Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 - On orders of President Ronald Reagan, US warplanes bombed the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghaze [H]
1989 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 - In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1992 - Revival of "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 - UN imposed embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 - US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
Birthdays Today
1592 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1629 - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1721 - William August Duke of Cumberland, English army leader ("Butcher of Culloden")
1762 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1813 - Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
1819 - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
1866 - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
1889 - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1900 - Salvatore Baccaloni, Rome, basso buffo (Barber of Seville, l'Elsir d'Amore) actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby)
1902 - Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1904 - Sir John Gielgud (Emmy Award-winning actor: Summer's Lease [1990-91], Becket, Arthur, Chariots of Fire, The Elephant Man, Ghandi, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Man for All Seasons, Murder on the Orient Express, War & Remembrance)
1907 - Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti
1913 - Jean Fournet, French conductor
1916 - Emerson Buckley, composer
1920 - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
1923 - Roberto DeVicenzo
1924 - Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky) (musician: trumpet, bandleader, songwriter: Keen and Peachy, Martians Go Home, Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud; composer, arranger: film: That Certain Girl)
1925 - Rod Steiger (Academy Award-winning actor: In the Heat of the Night [1967], On the Waterfront, The Pawnbroker, Dr. Zhivago, The Longest Day, Back Water, In Pursuit of Honor)
1926 - Gloria Jean (Schoonover) (actress: Copacabana, The Ladies Man)
1930 - Bradford Dillman (actor: Compulsion, The Bridge at Remagen, The Way We Were, Court-Martial, King's Crossing, Falcon Crest)
1932 - Anthony Perkins (actor: Psycho, A Demon in My View, Daughter of Darkness, Murder on the Orient Express, Green Mansions)
1933 - Buddy Knox (singer: Party Doll, Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep, Hula Love, Somebody Touched Me)
1935 - Bobby Nichols (golfer: PGA Champion [1964])
1935 - Joan Darling (Kugell) (actress: The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan)
1935 - Loretta Lynn Butcher's Hollow Ky, (country singer: Coal Miner's Daughter, I'm a Honky-Tonk Girl, One's on the Way, The Pill; 1st woman to earn the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award; named ACM Artist of the Decade" [1979])
1935 - Marty Keough (baseball)
1941 - Julie Christie (actress: Dr. Zhivago, Petulia, Shampoo, Separate Tables, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Fahrenheit 451)
1941 - Pete Rose ' Charlie hustle' (baseball: Cincinnati Reds 2B: Rookie of the Year [1963], OF: Baseball Writer's Award [1973], manager [1986-89}; Philadelphia:1B; Montreal: allegedly gambled on major-league games: banished from baseball)
1942 - Dick Brooks (auto racer)
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall (actor: The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, National Lampoon's Vacation, Edward Scissorhands; comedian: Saturday Night Live)
Famous deaths
0711 - Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
1099 - Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death
1471 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury ("The Kingmaker"), dies in combat at 42
1552 - Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1843 - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1924 - Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building, St Louis), dies at 67
1948 - Walter P Reuther, Pres (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1949 - Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
1964 - Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56
1965 - Perry E Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1965 - Robert E Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1986 - Jean Genet, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75
1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxi^Ême Sexe), dies at 86
1993 - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death
1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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