Every Major World Event that Happened on April 14

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Event	Year
Death of Pope Sergius III	911
Consecration of Pope Celestine II	1198
Yorkist King Edward IV wins Battle of Barnet over Lancastrian King Henry VI	1471
Canonization of Saint Bonaventure	1482
Birth of King Phillip III	1578
Birth of Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens	1629
Noah Webster publishes first dictionary	1818
Brigham Young baptized into Mormon faith	1832
Hungarian rebels declare independence from Hapsburg monarchy	1849
Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth	1865

Event	Year
Birth of Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan	1866
Birth of English historian, Arnold Toynbee	1889
Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope makes its debut	1894
Birth of English actor John Gielgud	1904
Titanic’s hull is ruptured and sinks	1912
Germany accuses France of using poison gas at Verdun in WWI	1915
Ernest Shackleton and his crew land on Elephant Island	1916
Death of the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof	1917
French general Ferdinand Foch put in command of all Allied forces and America first engages in aerial combat.	1918
Birth of Argentinean professional golfer Roberto DeVicenzo	1923

Event	Year
First regular-production Volvo produced	1927
Birth of English actress Julie Christie and landing of British and French troops in Nazi-occupied Norway	1940
Birth of American professional baseball player Pete Rose and Yugoslavian government flees to Athens	1941
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	1942
First videotape recorder first demonstrated	1956
Birth of American actress Sarah Michelle Gellar	1977
Soviet Union agrees to withdraw troops from Afghanistan	1988
British archaeologists discover 7,000-year-old fishing village on Dalma Island in UAE	1993
American warplanes accidentally shoot down two helicopters full of international personnel in Iraq	1994
NASDAQ posts its biggest drop ever	2000