Efeméride del 14 Abril

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1865 : Assassination of Abraham Lincoln On 14 April 1865, President Lincoln was mortally wounded by a gunshot fired by actor John Wilkes Booth in a theater in Washington DC. He died the next day.
1912 : The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg On 14 April 1912, at 23:40, on its first voyage across the Atlantic, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank hours later. Over 1500 people were killed.
1935 : Black Sunday storm On 14 April 1935, a series of dust storms transformed the day into night in the American Midwest. They were due to overexploitation of soils associated with a drought of several years. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their farms which had become useless and settle elsewhere.
1956 : Videotape Recorder On 14 April 1956, the company Ampex demonstrated the first recording on videotape that was used at the beginning by television.
1988 : The Soviet Union agreed to leave Afghanistan On April 14, 1988, in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signed an agreement on the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan.
1999 : Haoilstorm in Sydney On April 14, 1999, a phenomenal hailstorm striked the Sydney area in Australia causing more than 2 billion Australian dollars of damage.
2010 : Earthquake in China On April 14, 2010, an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck the region of Yushu in China killing nearly 3,000 people.

New Year festivals in South East Asia April 14 is the 2nd day of the Songkran festival in Thailand, festival marked by water fights in the streets. The same festival is celebrated in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and in slightly different versions in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Takayama Festival On this day we celebrate the first day of the Festival Takayama Spring Festival, Japan. For this festival, people decorate tanks and pray for a good harvest.

Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Christiaan Huygens, Matemático holandés (1629)
Momozono, Emperador de Japón (1741)
B. R. Ambedkar, Jurista y político indio (1891)
Claire Windsor, Actriz americana (1892)
John Gielgud, Actor inglés (1904)
Robert Doisneau, Fotógrafo francés (1912)
Valerie Hobson, Actriz inglesa (1917)
Joseph Poli, Periodista francés (1922)
Rod Steiger, Actor americano (1925)
Alan MacDiarmid, Químico de Nueva Zelanda, Premio Nobel (1927)
Chadli Bendjedid, Político argelino (1929)
René Desmaison, Alpinista francés (1930)
Frank Serpico, Oficial de Policía de la Ciudad de Nueva York (1936)
Julie Christie, Actriz inglesa (1941)
Valentin Lebedev, Cosmonauta ruso (1942)
Ritchie Blackmore, Guitarrista Inglés (Deep Purple) (1945)
Dominique Baudis, Político francés (1947)
John Shea, Actor americano (1949)
Julian Lloyd Webber, Violonchelista Inglés (1951)
Robert Carlyle, Actor inglés (1961)
Alexandre Jardin, Escritor francés (1965)
Nicola Berti, Futbolista italiano (1967)
Anthony Michael Hall, Actor americano (1968)
Roberto Ayala, Futbolista argentino (1973)
Adrien Brody, Actor americano (1973)
David Miller , Tenor americano (Il Divo) (1973)
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actriz americana (1977)
Ross Filipo, Jugador de rugby de Nueva Zelanda (1979)
James McFadden, Futbolista escocés (1983)
Abigail Breslin, Actriz americana (1996)

George Frideric Handel, Compositor alemán-británico (1759)
William Whitehead, Poeta inglés (1785)
Henri Brisson, Político francés (1912)
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Escritor ruso (1930)
Henri Fauconnier, Escritor francés (1973)
Fredric March, Actor americano (1975)
Simone de Beauvoir, Escritora francesa (1986)
Burl Ives, Actor y cantante americano (1995)
Phil Katz, Programador informático americano (formato zip) (2000)
Maurice Druon, Político y escritor francés (2009)

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