We all know what's significant for us on April 14th (2005)... it's Vishu (harvest festival in kerala) and Tamil New Year's Day... but wat else??
Here's a list of what happened on this day!!
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
1864 - Battle at the 'Düppeler Schanzen'. The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies
1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day
1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.
1914 - The town of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic
1935 -Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl
1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later
1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France
1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight
1986 - In retaliation for the bombing of a West Berlin night club where a U.S. serviceman was killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, that killed 60 people.
1986 - 2.2 lb (1kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections
2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa.
PS: Never thought you will read the whole thing!! Now, when's the next History Quiz??
Here's a list of what happened on this day!!
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
1450 - Battle of Formigny. French attack and nearly annihilate English, ending English domination in northern France.
1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California
1864 - Battle at the 'Düppeler Schanzen'. The Prussian Army defeats the Danish and finally separates Schleswig from Danmark, Schleswig becomes a part of Germany
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day
1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies
1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day
1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.
1914 - The town of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic
1935 -Black Sunday, the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl
1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later
1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time.
1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France
1969 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia passes its first test flight
1986 - In retaliation for the bombing of a West Berlin night club where a U.S. serviceman was killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, that killed 60 people.
1986 - 2.2 lb (1kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
2003 - Jean Charest's Parti libéral du Québec defeats Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois in Quebec's general elections
2004 - Sikhs celebrate the 305th anniversary of the creation of the Khalsa.
PS: Never thought you will read the whole thing!! Now, when's the next History Quiz??
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