Every Major World Event that Happened on April 14

Death of Pope Sergius III

Consecration of Pope Celestine II

Yorkist King Edward IV wins Battle of Barnet over Lancastrian King Henry VI

Canonization of Saint Bonaventure

Birth of King Phillip III

Birth of Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens

Noah Webster publishes first dictionary

Brigham Young baptized into Mormon faith

Hungarian rebels declare independence from Hapsburg monarchy

Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth

Birth of Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan

Birth of English historian, Arnold Toynbee

Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope makes its debut

Birth of English actor John Gielgud

Titanic’s hull is ruptured and sinks

Germany accuses France of using poison gas at Verdun in WWI

Ernest Shackleton and his crew land on Elephant Island

Death of the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof

French general Ferdinand Foch put in command of all Allied forces and America first engages in aerial combat.

Birth of Argentinean professional golfer Roberto DeVicenzo

First regular-production Volvo produced

Birth of English actress Julie Christie and landing of British and French troops in Nazi-occupied Norway

Birth of American professional baseball player Pete Rose and Yugoslavian government flees to Athens

Birth of American race-car driver Dick Brooks, first use of new British radar system in WWII, and first American sinking of a German submarine

First videotape recorder first demonstrated

Birth of American actress Sarah Michelle Gellar

Soviet Union agrees to withdraw troops from Afghanistan

British archaeologists discover 7,000-year-old fishing village on Dalma Island in UAE

American warplanes accidentally shoot down two helicopters full of international personnel in Iraq

NASDAQ posts its biggest drop ever