April 14: Bengali New Year, Vaisakhi (Sikhism), Tamil New Year, and other New Year festivals in Asia (2018); Day of the Georgian language in Georgia (1978)
Illustration of celestial phenomena in Nuremberg
- 193 – Septimius Severus seized the throne of the Roman Empire after the death of Pertinax during the Year of the Five Emperors.
- 1561 – In Nuremberg, a mass sighting of celestial phenomena (illustration pictured) took place of an "aerial battle" between odd-shaped objects.
- 1908 – The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed and caused severe flooding and damage downstream.
- 1945 – The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
- 2014 – Boko Haram kidnapped 276 female students from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
Christiaan Huygens (b. 1629) · Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857) · L. L. Zamenhof (d. 1917)
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