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April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
• 69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
• 966 – Christianisation of Poland
• 1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
• 1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
• 1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
• 1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
• 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 Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
• 1699 – Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, 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.
• 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
• 1831 – Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
• 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.
• 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
• 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.
• 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
• 1894 – Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
• 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
• 1915 – The Turks invade Armenia.
• 1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1931 – Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
• 1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
• 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
• 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. In addition, Rommel attacks Tobruk.
• 1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
• 1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
• 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
• 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
• 1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
• 1970 An oxygen tank on the spacecraft Apollo 13 explodes endangering the lives of the three crewmen onboard.
• 1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
• 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
• 1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
• 1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• 1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
• 1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
• 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
• 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
• 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 MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
• 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
• 2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Births

• 1336 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
• 1578 – King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
• 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician (d. 1695)
• 1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General (d. 1741)
• 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
• 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
• 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
• 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman (d. 1854)
• 1788 – David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
• 1800 – John George Appold, fur dyer and engineer (d. 1865)
• 1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
• 1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
• 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Consort (d. 1944)
• 1866 – Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
• 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
• 1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
• 1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
• 1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian writer (d. 1948)
• 1882 – Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
• 1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
• 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d. 1956)
• 1892 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist (d. 1957)
• 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1902 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
• 1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian politician (d. 1971)
• 1908 – Phil Vincent, Motorcycle designer and manufacturer (d. 1979)
• 1917 – Marvin Miller, American labor activist
• 1917 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress
• 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
• 1923 – Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golfer
• 1924 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
• 1925 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
• 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• 1925 – Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Gerry Anderson, English television producer
• 1930 – Bradford Dillman, American actor
• 1931 – Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932 – Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher, cultural theorist
• 1935 – Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter
• 1935 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
• 1936 – Kenneth Mars, American actor
• 1936 – Frank Serpico, American policeman
• 1936 – Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
• 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress
• 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player
• 1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
• 1942 – Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
• 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
• 1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
• 1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
• 1949 – DeAnne Julius, American/English economist
• 1949 – John Shea, American actor
• 1950 – Francis Collins, American scientist
• 1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
• 1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
• 1953 – David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
• 1954 – Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
• 1957 – Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
• 1957 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
• 1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
• 1958 – John D'Aquino, American actor
• 1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor
• 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor
• 1964 – Greg Battle, Canadian Football League player
• 1964 – David Moore, American academic librarian
• 1965 – Tom Dey, American film director
• 1965 – Kirk Windstein, American guitarist (Crowbar, Down)
• 1966 – David Justice, American baseball player
• 1966 – André Boisclair, Quebec politician (Parti Québécois)
• 1967 – Barrett Martin, American drummer and composer
• 1967 – Nicola Berti, Italian International footballer
• 1967 – Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
• 1969 – Brad Ausmus, American baseball player
• 1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
• 1969 – Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
• 1969 – Mark Macon, American basketball player
• 1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer
• 1970 – Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
• 1971 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer
• 1971 – Peter Gibson, American writer
• 1971 – Gregg Zaun, American baseball player
• 1972 – Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
• 1972 – Roberto Mejia, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
• 1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
• 1973 – David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
• 1974 – Shawntae Harris, American rapper
• 1975 – Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
• 1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
• 1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
• 1975 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
• 1976 – Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
• 1976 – Christian Älvestam, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
• 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
• 1978 – Paul O'Brien, Australian actor
• 1979 – Rebecca DiPietro, American model
• 1979 – Randal McCloy, Survivor of the Sago Mine Disaster
• 1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer
• 1980 – Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
• 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
• 1983 – William Yaw Obeng, Arena Football League lineman
• 1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
• 1984 – Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
• 1984 – Tyler Thigpen, American football player
• 1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
• 1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
• 1986 – Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
• 1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
• 1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
• 1993 – Vivien Cardone, an American actress
• 1993 – Graham Phillips (actor), American actor
• 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress

Deaths

• 1132 – Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076).
• 1279 – Boleslaus of Greater Poland.
• 1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275).
• 1345 – Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287).
• 1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428).
• 1574 – Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538).
• 1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman.
• 1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582).
• 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621).
• 1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral.
• 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652).
• 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685).
• 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715).
• 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720).
• 1864 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (b. 1777).
• 1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856).
• 1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880).
• 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836).
• 1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835).
• 1914 – Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855).
• 1917 – Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859).
• 1925 – John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856).
• 1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893).
• 1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882).
• 1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871).
• 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879).
• 1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, (b. 1893).
• 1964 – Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876).
• 1964 – Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (b. 1907).
• 1965 – Dick Hickock (b. 1933) and Perry Smith (b. 1928) American murderers.
• 1968 – Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911).
• 1975 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897).
• 1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914).
• 1983 – Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952).
• 1984 – Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912).
• 1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919).
• 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908).
• 1988 – John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925).
• 1990 – Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931).
• 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897).
• 1995 – Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909).
• 1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911).
• 1999 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931).
• 2000 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910).
• 2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962).
• 2000 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918).
• 2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927).
• 2001 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939).
• 2004 – Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953).
• 2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936).
• 2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924).
• 2007 – Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930).
• 2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918).
• 2008 – Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912).
• 2008 – Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957).

Holidays and observances

• Saint Justin Martyr's Original Feast Day
• Astrological New Year (sidereal equinox) – celebrated as New Year in South and Southeast Asia, namely by Bengalis, Burmese, Cambodians, Laotians, Malayalees, Nepalese (Vaishak Ek), Punjabis, Sinhalese, Tamils, Thais, and Tuluvas.
• Youth Day in Angola.
• Mologa Day in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
• Day of the Georgian language in Georgia.
• Ambedkar Jayanti in India.
• Vaisakhi in India.
• Rongali Bihu in Assam, India.
• Bisu as Tulu New Year in Coastal Karnataka.
• Roman Catholic saints: St. Domnina of Terni
• April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

• selected by Kalki

2005

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell (born 14 April 1879)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Good Friday 2006)

• selected by Kalki

2007

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist... It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever... Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes." ~ Kurt Vonnegut (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this. ~ James Branch Cabell

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over;
One thing unshaken stays:
Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover;
Whereby decays
Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal
Of hourly change begot,
Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal,
And changes not.
~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

• It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
  • used 3 March 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions

And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,

Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one august event,

Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
—Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the Titanic)" (1912)

• The "convergence" of the Titanic and the iceberg was on April 14, 1912.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC) but I strongly prefer to hold this one in reserve until the 100th anniversary in 2012, on which date I would certainly give it a 4.
• 1 Zarbon 23:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour. ~ James Branch Cabell

• 3 Kalki 22:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 23:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. ~ James Branch Cabell

• 3 Kalki 22:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 23:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ James Branch Cabell

• 3 Kalki 16:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 20:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. ~ James Branch Cabell

• 3 Kalki 16:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 20:46, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

A life which does not go into action is a failure. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones. ~ Horace Bushnell

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. ~ Horace Bushnell

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths. ~ Horace Bushnell

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion. ~ Horace Bushnell

• 2 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The world is my country, science is my religion. ~ Christiaan Huygens

• 4 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC) but only in revised form, and as yet very tenuously for that: the earliest and only published citation I can find attributing such a statement to Huygens is in The Making of Modern Europe, 1648-1780 (1985) by Geoffrey Treasure, p. 474 where it is declared that his "motto" was "The world is my country, to promote science is my religion" but this seems very similar to the much more famous and long attested declaration of Thomas Paine: "The world is my country, and to do good is my religion."

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ~ John Holt

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. ~ John Holt

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever. ~ François Duvalier

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Bullets and machine guns capable of daunting Duvalier do not exist. They cannot touch me... I am already an immaterial being. ~ François Duvalier

• 3 Zarbon 05:46, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 23:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

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Games released on April 14.

From Familypedia

April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
• 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
• 1028 - Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
• 1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
• 1341 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo
• 1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
• 1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
• 1632 - Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1699 - Khalsa. Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
• 1775 - The first abolition society in the 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.
• 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
• 1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
• 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 Louis Kossuth as its leader.
• 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
• 1864 - Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
• 1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas.
• 1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington.
• 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
• 1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage at 11:40 P.M., sinking with the loss of over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.
• 1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.
• 1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
• 1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
• 1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. In this year, he played for the Boston Braves. Also, Ruth plays 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.
• 1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
• 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation 25.
• 1944 - A massive explosion rocks the Bombay harbor killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion.
• 1945 - Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascistic occupation.
• 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.
• 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
• 1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
• 1968 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
• 1978 - 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: thousands of Georgians demonstrate against the attempt by the Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• 1981 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.
• 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.
• 1986 - 2.2 pound (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
• 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis.
• 1988 - In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• 1994 - In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force F-15 aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, killing 26 people.
• 1999 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
• 1999 - A severe hailstorm lasting only one hour, causes over $1.5 billion worth of damage, in Sydney, Australia.
• 2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich filed a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually led the movement against file-sharing programs.
• 2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military.
• 2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
• 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 - Oregon Supreme Court nullifies nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
• 2007 - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
• 2007 - 33 passengers are killed in Aksaray, Turkey in a bus crash going to Cappadocia.
• 2007 - National Lawn Chair Day
• 2007 - Hartlepool United are promoted to Coca Cola League One after they win 1-0 at Wycombe Wanderers.

Births

• 1336 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
• 1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
• 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician (d. 1695)
• 1668 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General (d. 1741)
• 1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
• 1738 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
• 1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
• 1773 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, French statesman (d. 1854)
• 1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
• 1827 - Augustus Pitt-Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
• 1857 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (d. 1944)
• 1866 - Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (d. 1936)
• 1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
• 1870 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
• 1870 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
• 1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar (d. 1953)
• 1886 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
• 1891 - B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d.1956)
• 1892 - Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist (d. 1957)
• 1897 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Ukrainian rabbi (d. 1994)
• 1902 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
• 1904 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1905 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
• 1907 - François Duvalier, Haitian politician (d. 1971)
• 1917 - Marvin Miller, American labor activist
• 1917 - Valerie Hobson, British actress (d. 1998)
• 1921 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
• 1923 - Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golf player
• 1924 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
• 1925 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
• 1925 - Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• 1925 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1926 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
• 1926 - Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1927 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
• 1927 - Dany Robin, French actress (d. 1995)
• 1929 - Gerry Anderson, English television producer
• 1930 - Bradford Dillman, American actor
• 1931 - Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1935 - Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter
• 1935 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
• 1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
• 1936 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
• 1936 - Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
• 1941 - Julie Christie, British actress
• 1941 - Pete Rose, American baseball player
• 1942 - Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
• 1942 - Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
• 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
• 1945 - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
• 1948 - Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer
• 1949 - DeAnne Julius, American/English economist
• 1949 - John Shea, American actor
• 1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
• 1952 - Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
• 1953 - David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
• 1954 - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author
• 1957 - Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
• 1957 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
• 1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
• 1958 - John D'Aquino, American actor
• 1960 - Brad Garrett, American actor
• 1961 - Robert Carlyle, British actor
• 1964 - Brian Adams, American professional wrestler
• 1966 - David Justice, American baseball player
• 1966 - Greg Maddux, American baseball player
• 1966 - André Boisclair, Quebec politician (Parti Québécois)
• 1967 - Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
• 1969 - Brad Ausmus, American baseball player
• 1969 - Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
• 1969 - Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
• 1970 - Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer
• 1970 - Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
• 1971 - Gregg Zaun, American baseball player
• 1972 - Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
• 1972 - Roberto Mejia, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 - Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
• 1973 - Adrien Brody, American actor
• 1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
• 1974 - Shawntae Harris (aka Da Brat), American rapper
• 1975 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
• 1975 - Veronika Zemanová, Czech model
• 1975 - Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
• 1976 - Anna DeForge, American basketball player
• 1976 - Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
• 1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
• 1979 - Rebecca DiPietro, American model
• 1979 - Randal McCloy Jr., sole survivor of the Sago Mine Disaster
• 1979 - Noé Pamarot, French footballer
• 1980 - Ben Wells, American actor
• 1983 - James McFadden, Scottish footballer
• 1984 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
• 1986 - Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
• 1987 - Joao Barion, Brazilian racing driver
• 1993 - Vivien Cardone, an American actress
• 1993 - Graham Phillips, an young American actor that played in Evan Almighty
• 1996 - Abigail Breslin, American child actress

Deaths

• 1132 - Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)
• 1279 - Boleslaus of Greater Poland
• 1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
• 1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
• 1471 - Richard Neville, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
• 1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)
• 1578 - James Hepburn, consort of Mary I of Scotland
• 1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
• 1612 - Sasaki Kojiro, Japanese samurai (killed by Musashi Miyamoto)
• 1662 - William Fiennes, English statesman (b. 1582)
• 1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)
• 1716 - Arthur Herbert, British admiral
• 1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
• 1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
• 1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
• 1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
• 1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
• 1911 - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1911 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
• 1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
• 1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
• 1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
• 1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
• 1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
• 1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1941 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
• 1950 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
• 1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
• 1964 - Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (b. 1907)
• 1968 - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1975 - Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 - José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
• 1983 - Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
• 1984 - Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
• 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
• 1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
• 1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
• 2000 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
• 2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
• 2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
• 2006 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
• 2007 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Astrological New Year - celebrated as new year in South and South East Aisa. Namely by Bengalis, Burmese, Cambodians, Laotians, Malayalees, Punjabis, Sinhalese, Tamils and Thais.
• N'Ko Alphabet Day - the anniversary of the day the N'Ko alphabet was completed in 1949.
• Black Day - Informal celebration day for single people in South Korea.
• Youth Day in Angola.
• Mologa Day in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
• National Day of Climate Action in the United States
• Day of the Georgian language in Georgia
• Ambedkar Jayanti in India

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada