April 14

1471 The Earl of Warwick, who battled on both sides in the War of the Roses, is executed at the Battle of Barnet with the annihilation of the Lancastrians. 1543 Bartolome Ferrelo comes back to Spain subsequent to finding a vast cove in the New World (San Francisco). 1775 The first abolitionist society in United States is sorted out in Philadelphia. 1793 A royalist disobedience in Santo Domingo is squashed by French republican troops. 1828 The first version of Noah Webster's dictionary reference is distributed.

1860 The first Pony Express rider lands in San Francisco with mail beginning in St. Joseph, Missouri.

1865 President Abraham Lincoln is killed in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

1894 Thomas Edison's kinetoscope is shown to the general population for the first time. 1900 The World Exposition opens in Paris.

1912 The traveler liner Titanic- - considered unsinkable - strikes an ice sheet on her first trip and starts to sink. The ship will go under the following day with 1,500 lives lost. 1931 King Alfonso XIII of Spain is toppled. 1945 American B-29 planes damage the Imperial Palace amid firebombing assault over Tokyo. 1953 The Viet Minh attack Laos with 40,00 troops in their war against French frontier forces. 1959 The Taft Memorial Bell Tower is committed in Washington, D.C. 1961 The first live broadcast is televised from the Soviet Union. 1969 The first major league baseball game is played in Montreal, Canada.

Columbia space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California

1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, comes back to Earth. Born on April 14 1578 Philip III, ruler of Spain and Portugal (1598-1621). 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch cosmologist. 1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, educator who taught Helen Keller. 1889 Arnold Toynbee, English teacher of history. 1898 Harold Black, electrical engineer. 1904 Sir John Gielgud, British actor. All pictures are supplied by Wikipedia creative commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page