April 14: Bengali New Year; Cambodian New Year, Tamil New Year, and other New Year festivals in Asia (2016); Day of the Georgian language in Georgia (1978)
Noah Webster
- 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1828 – Lexicographer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English.
- 1909 – Following a military revolt against the constitutional government, a mob began a massacre of Armenians in Adana Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.
- 1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 2003 – The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.
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