What are the important events that happened on April 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 14 is the 105^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 1, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,550,880 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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 290 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,132 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 14 Historical Events

• 1294 –
  Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
• 1434 –
  The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
• 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.
• 1828 –
  Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
• 1860 –
  The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
• 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.
• 1944 –
  Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
• 1999 –
  A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
• 2005 –
  The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

Who were born on April 14?

• 1891 –
  B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d. 1956)
• 1925 –
  Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1928 –
  Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
• 1941 –
  Pete Rose, American baseball player
• 1973 –
  David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
• 1975 –
  Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
• 1975 –
  Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 –
  Claire Coffee, American actress
• 1981 –
  Amy Leach, British theatre director
• 1989 –
  Dafina Zeqiri, Kosovan-Swedish singer

Who died on April 14?

• 1599 –
  Henry Wallop, English statesman
• 1910 –
  Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
• 1914 –
  Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
• 1935 –
  Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1968 –
  Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1976 –
  José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
• 1994 –
  Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 2004 –
  Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
• 2008 –
  Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney’s Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
• 2011 –
  Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)