Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14
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Apollo 13 mission patch
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Damage to the Apollo 13 service module
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"Black Sunday" dust storm
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Bust of Septimius Severus
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Edward IV of England
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Gnassingbé Eyadéma
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Two-inch quadruplex videotape
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Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
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Noah Webster
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John Wilkes Booth
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"Houston, we've had a problem here"
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| Bengali New Year, | expansion |
| 1434 – The foundation stone of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, Brittany, France, was first laid, but the building was not completed until more than four centuries later in 1891. | refimprove |
| 1561 – A mass sighting of celestial phenomena (depicted) occurred in Nuremberg, Germany, where observers described an "aerial battle" between odd-shaped objects. | Not MP worthy |
| 1927 – The first Volvo automobile was built in the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden. | date not cited, refimprove section |
| 1931 – After King [[Alfonso XIII of Spain|Template:Nowrap]] left Spain, the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. | lead too long |
| 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and a major factor in his 1962 Nobel Prize award, was first published. | refimprove sections |
| 1956 – The use of 2-inch quadruplex, the first practical and commercially successful videotape format, was first demonstrated in public. | unreferenced section |
| 2003 – The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – In Ankara, Turkey, the first of the Republic Protests took place, when hundreds of thousands of people protested against the possible presidential candidacy of incumbent prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. | list should be converted to prose |
| John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu |d|1471 | lead too long |
| M. Visvesvaraya |d|1962 | conflicting dates |
| Junko Sakurada |b|1958 | date failed verification |
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--Day of the Georgian Language (1978)--
- 43 BC – War of Mutina: Despite initial success, troops loyal to Mark Antony were defeated near the Via Aemilia in northern Italy by legions loyal to the Roman Senate.
- 966 – Polish ruler Mieszko I converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1828 – Lexicographer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English
- 1865 – Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- 1906 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
- 1908 – The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.
- 1909 – Following a reactionary military revolt against the Committee of Union and Progress, a mob began a massacre of Armenian Christians in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1935 – Dust Bowl: A severe dust storm swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairies.
- 1944 – The freighter Fort Stikine, carrying cotton bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour of Bombay, India, sinking surrounding ships and causing about 800 deaths.
- 1967 – After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held until 2005.
- 1970 – After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here" (audio featured).
- 1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1983 – Let's Dance, English musician David Bowie's best-selling album, was released.
- 1994 – Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.
- 2010 – Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days.
- 2010 – Nearly 2,700 people were killed in an earthquake registering Template:Nowrap in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China.
- 2015 – Western Kentucky University announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and diving programs as a result of a hazing scandal.
- Born/died this day: | Lucia Visconti |d|1424|
Christiaan Huygens |b|1629| William Whitehead |d|1785| Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey |b|1819| Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom |b|1857| Anne Sullivan |b|1866| V. Gordon Childe |b|1892| John Gielgud |b|1904| [[L. L. Zamenhof|Template:Nowrap Zamenhof]] |d|1917| Rod Steiger |b|1925| Yakov Dzhugashvili |d|1943| Berry Berenson |b|1948| Peter Capaldi |b|1958| Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt |b|1966 Lita |b|1975| Santiago Abascal |b|1976 Sarah Michelle Gellar |b|1977 Ante Ćorić |b|1997
Notes
- RMS Titanic listed on April 15
- A Dictionary of the English Language appears on April 15 so Noah Webster should not appear in the same year.
- Battle of Barnet and John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, should not be featured in the same year
April 14: Tamil New Year and other New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia (2024); N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
- 1945 – World War II: The German town of Friesoythe was razed by the 4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
- 1999 – A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
- 2014 – Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria.