April 14
1775 - Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American anti-slavery society.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reached his destination of San Francisco, California after having left St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. (Lincoln died the following day.)
1894 - The first kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City.
1902 - James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1912 - The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking. (The ship went under nearly three hours later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)
1935 - The "Black Sunday" dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny afternoon into total darkness.
1949 - The "Wilhelmstrasse Trial" in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.
1960 - Tamla Records and Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., were incorporated as Motown Record Corp.
1969 - In a record-breaking night at the Academy Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand resulted in the two sharing the award for Best Actress, with Hepburn becoming the first actress to ever win three such awards.
1981 - The first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1994 - Two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people including 15 Americans.
1999 - NATO mistakenly bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees; Yugoslav officials said 75 people were killed.
2002 - Hugo Chavez returned to the presidency of Venezuela after being forced from office two days earlier.
2003 - Abu Abbas, the leader of the terrorist group Palestine Liberation Front when the group hijacked the liner Achille Lauro, was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
2007 - Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally in Moscow against Russian President Vladimir Putin's government.
2010 - An explosion in the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland resulted in a volcanic ash plume in the atmosphere over northern and central Europe, halting air travel in the region for days.
2012 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the RMS Titanic was built, thousands attended a choral requiem at the Anglican St. Anne's Cathedral or a nationally televised concert at the city's Waterfront Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
2012 - Eleven U.S. Secret Service agents were placed on administrative leave as a deepening scandal involving prostitutes overshadowed President Barack Obama's diplomatic mission to Latin America.
2020 - President Donald Trump announced that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization; Trump said it had not done enough to stop the coronavirus from spreading.
2021 - A white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. (Potter, who said she confused her handgun for her Taser, was convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison.)
2021 - President Joe Biden said he would withdraw the 2,500 remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with the drawdown to begin by May 1; that date had been the deadline for full withdrawal under a peace agreement that the Trump administration reached with the Taliban in 2020.
2021 - Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle, died at a federal prison in North Carolina at age 82.
Birthdays
25 - Melissa Sandoval (singer)
26 - Abigail Breslin (actress)
27 - Baker Mayfield (football player)
28 - Skyler Samuels (actress)
29 - Josephine Skriver (model)
29 - Graham Phillips (actor)
29 - Vivien Cardone (actress)
30 - Nick Krause (actor)
32 - Christian Alexander (actor)
34 - Chris Wood (actor)
42 - Claire Coffee (actress)
45 - JD McPherson (singer)
45 - Rob McElhenney (actor)
45 - Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress)
47 - Amy "Lita" Dumas (professional wrestler)
47 - Antwon Tanner (actor)
49 - Adrien Brody (actor)
54 - Anthony Michael Hall (actor)
56 - Greg Maddux (baseball player)
56 - Lloyd Owen (actor)
57 - Catherine Dent (actress)
58 - Robert Clendenin (actor)
61 - Robert Carlyle (actor)
62 - Brad Garrett (actor)
62 - Brian Forster (actor/race car driver)
64 - Peter Capaldi (actor)
74 - John Shea (actor)
81 - Pete Rose (baseball player)
82 - Julie Christie (actress)
90 - Loretta Lynn (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 14
1910 - President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.
1928 - The New York Rangers defeat the Montreal Maroons to win the Stanley Cup.
1931 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Chicago Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup.
1948 - The Toronto Maple Leafs sweep the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1955 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens in seven games to win back-to-back Stanley Cups.
1960 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup, winning the cup for the fifth consecutive year.
1962 - Elgin Baylor (Los Angeles Lakers) scored 61 points in Game 5 against the Boston Celtics to set an NBA Finals record.
1969 - For the first time, a major league baseball game was played outside the United States as the Montreal Expos hosted and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7.
1974 - Gary Player wins his second Masters.
1985 - Bernhard Langer wins the Masters.
1991 - Ian Woosnam wins the Masters.
1991 - The Chicago Blackhawks become the first NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in the first round of the playoffs, being eliminated by the Minnesota North Stars.
1996 - Nick Faldo wins his third Masters and the sixth and final major of his career.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings won an NHL record 62nd game of the season.
1997 - Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers scored 40 or more points in his fifth consecutive game.
1999 - Jose Canseco of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays became the 28th player in MLB history to hit 400 career home runs, and the first non-U.S. born player to achieve the feat.
2002 - Tiger Woods became the third golfer to win back-to-back Masters tournaments; it was also the third Masters win of his career.
2013 - Adam Scott becomes the first Australian to win the Masters.
2017 - Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted in Boston in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a drink spilled at a nightclub. (Five days later, Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell.)
2019 - Tiger Woods wins his fifth Masters with a one-stroke victory over Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka. It is the 15th major championship in Woods' career and his first in 11 years.
1775 - Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American anti-slavery society.
1828 - Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.
1860 - The first Pony Express rider reached his destination of San Francisco, California after having left St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. (Lincoln died the following day.)
1894 - The first kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City.
1902 - James Cash Penney opened his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1912 - The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking. (The ship went under nearly three hours later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)
1935 - The "Black Sunday" dust storm descended upon the central Plains, turning a sunny afternoon into total darkness.
1949 - The "Wilhelmstrasse Trial" in Nuremberg ended with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.
1960 - Tamla Records and Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., were incorporated as Motown Record Corp.
1969 - In a record-breaking night at the Academy Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand resulted in the two sharing the award for Best Actress, with Hepburn becoming the first actress to ever win three such awards.
1981 - The first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1994 - Two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people including 15 Americans.
1999 - NATO mistakenly bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees; Yugoslav officials said 75 people were killed.
2002 - Hugo Chavez returned to the presidency of Venezuela after being forced from office two days earlier.
2003 - Abu Abbas, the leader of the terrorist group Palestine Liberation Front when the group hijacked the liner Achille Lauro, was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
2007 - Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally in Moscow against Russian President Vladimir Putin's government.
2010 - An explosion in the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland resulted in a volcanic ash plume in the atmosphere over northern and central Europe, halting air travel in the region for days.
2012 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the RMS Titanic was built, thousands attended a choral requiem at the Anglican St. Anne's Cathedral or a nationally televised concert at the city's Waterfront Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
2012 - Eleven U.S. Secret Service agents were placed on administrative leave as a deepening scandal involving prostitutes overshadowed President Barack Obama's diplomatic mission to Latin America.
2020 - President Donald Trump announced that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization; Trump said it had not done enough to stop the coronavirus from spreading.
2021 - A white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. (Potter, who said she confused her handgun for her Taser, was convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison.)
2021 - President Joe Biden said he would withdraw the 2,500 remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with the drawdown to begin by May 1; that date had been the deadline for full withdrawal under a peace agreement that the Trump administration reached with the Taliban in 2020.
2021 - Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle, died at a federal prison in North Carolina at age 82.
Birthdays
25 - Melissa Sandoval (singer)
26 - Abigail Breslin (actress)
27 - Baker Mayfield (football player)
28 - Skyler Samuels (actress)
29 - Josephine Skriver (model)
29 - Graham Phillips (actor)
29 - Vivien Cardone (actress)
30 - Nick Krause (actor)
32 - Christian Alexander (actor)
34 - Chris Wood (actor)
42 - Claire Coffee (actress)
45 - JD McPherson (singer)
45 - Rob McElhenney (actor)
45 - Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress)
47 - Amy "Lita" Dumas (professional wrestler)
47 - Antwon Tanner (actor)
49 - Adrien Brody (actor)
54 - Anthony Michael Hall (actor)
56 - Greg Maddux (baseball player)
56 - Lloyd Owen (actor)
57 - Catherine Dent (actress)
58 - Robert Clendenin (actor)
61 - Robert Carlyle (actor)
62 - Brad Garrett (actor)
62 - Brian Forster (actor/race car driver)
64 - Peter Capaldi (actor)
74 - John Shea (actor)
81 - Pete Rose (baseball player)
82 - Julie Christie (actress)
90 - Loretta Lynn (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 14
1910 - President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.
1928 - The New York Rangers defeat the Montreal Maroons to win the Stanley Cup.
1931 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Chicago Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup.
1948 - The Toronto Maple Leafs sweep the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1955 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens in seven games to win back-to-back Stanley Cups.
1960 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup, winning the cup for the fifth consecutive year.
1962 - Elgin Baylor (Los Angeles Lakers) scored 61 points in Game 5 against the Boston Celtics to set an NBA Finals record.
1969 - For the first time, a major league baseball game was played outside the United States as the Montreal Expos hosted and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7.
1974 - Gary Player wins his second Masters.
1985 - Bernhard Langer wins the Masters.
1991 - Ian Woosnam wins the Masters.
1991 - The Chicago Blackhawks become the first NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in the first round of the playoffs, being eliminated by the Minnesota North Stars.
1996 - Nick Faldo wins his third Masters and the sixth and final major of his career.
1996 - The Detroit Red Wings won an NHL record 62nd game of the season.
1997 - Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers scored 40 or more points in his fifth consecutive game.
1999 - Jose Canseco of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays became the 28th player in MLB history to hit 400 career home runs, and the first non-U.S. born player to achieve the feat.
2002 - Tiger Woods became the third golfer to win back-to-back Masters tournaments; it was also the third Masters win of his career.
2013 - Adam Scott becomes the first Australian to win the Masters.
2017 - Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted in Boston in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a drink spilled at a nightclub. (Five days later, Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell.)
2019 - Tiger Woods wins his fifth Masters with a one-stroke victory over Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka. It is the 15th major championship in Woods' career and his first in 11 years.
