Information about important events in the history of the world
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.
1469 - Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, was born on Baisakhi in a Khatri family in Talwandi Rae Bhoe in Pakistan, known as Nankana Sahib
1659 - Aurangzeb defeated his brother Dara Shukoh to capture the throne of Delhi.
1699 – Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
Official White House portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George Peter Alexander Healy
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.35pm in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
Then: RMS Titanic before departing Southampton, England. Photo taken Good Friday 5 April 1912 Now: Titanic's bow, with the forestay shackle
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1948 - Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India.
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
2000 – Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
You Share your B’day with
B. R. Ambedkar
April 14, 1891 — December 6, 1956
India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator. Author of the Constitution of India.
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