World.- In the ephemeris of this April 14, many important events that marked the history of humanity stand out, among them the one that occurred on this same day but in 1958, when the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 disintegrated with the dog Laika in its interior as it enters the atmosphere
What are the ephemeris of April 14?
1865.- US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the neck and died the next day.
1894: Thomas Edison introduces the kinetoscope, which was a precursor to motion pictures.
1900.- Creation of the International Cycling Union.
1909.- The Ottoman Government murders some 30,000 Armenian Christians in the city of Adana Vilayet (Turkey), known as the Adana massacre.
1912.- Shipwreck of the “Titanic”, the world’s largest ocean liner, when it collided with an iceberg off Newfoundland. 1,513 people die.
1929.- The Monaco Circuit is inaugurated.
1931.- Proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain and constitution of a provisional government presided over by Niceto Alcalá Zamora. Francesc Maciá proclaims the Catalan state and sets himself up as president.
1936.- The theater group “La Barraca”, created by Federico García Lorca, makes its last performance in Barcelona.
1958.- The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 disintegrates with the dog Laika inside as it enters the atmosphere.
1965.- The US launches napalm bombs against North Vietnamese targets, causing an undetermined number of civilian casualties.
1980.- The new wave of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden releases its first studio album, in London.
1981.- ETA releases the Valencian industrialist Luis Suñer, kidnapped for three months, after collecting a ransom.
1988.- Approved the private television law in Spain.
1992.- Inaugural journey of the High Speed Train (AVE), between Madrid and Seville.
nineteen ninety six.- Freed after 341 days kidnapped by ETA the Spanish businessman José María Aldaya.
1999.- War in Yugoslavia: an attack by mistake by a NATO F-16 causes the death of 75 Kosovar refugees in Kosovo.
2000.- The Russian Duma ratifies the Start II treaty signed with the United States in 1993 for a drastic reduction of offensive nuclear weapons.
2003.- A consortium of six countries, including the US and the UK, decipher the complete sequence of the human genome.
2012.- King Juan Carlos undergoes surgery after fracturing a hip during a private trip to Botswana to hunt elephants. He publicly apologized for the trip.
2014.- The newspapers The Guardian and The Washington Post have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the category of public service for their information on the Snowden case.
2015.- Some 400 immigrants disappear when the boat in which they traveled to Italy from Libya is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean.
2018.- The US leads an air attack together with the United Kingdom and France against several facilities where it suspects that the Syrian regime is developing chemical weapons.
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2020.- The president of the USA, Donald Trump, orders, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, to freeze the funds that his Government contributes to the World Health Organization (WHO).
What are the events of April 14 for America?
1890.- The Pan American Union was born at the International American Conference held in Washington, in which this date was established as “Day of the Americas”.
1907.- Strong earthquake in Acapulco (Mexico), which destroys almost the entire city.
1971.- The OAS holds its General Assembly in San José, Costa Rica.
1985.- The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) wins the presidential and legislative elections in Peru. Alan Garcia, new president.
1989.- The Sandinista government of Nicaragua presents the democratizing reforms to Parliament and condemns the help of the US president, George Bush, to the “contra”.
2002.- Hugo Chávez is reinstated as president of Venezuela, after a coup d’état that evicts him from power for 48 hours.
2013.- Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela.
2015.- The US president, Barack Obama, decides to remove Cuba from the list of State sponsors of terrorism, in which that country has remained since 1982.
Who was born on an April 14?
1578.- Felipe III of Austria, future king of Spain.
1892.- Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter.
1920.- Josep Benet, Spanish lawyer, politician and historian.
1925.- Rod Steiger, American actor.
1926.- Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician.
1929.- Chadli Benyedid, former president of Algeria.
1940.- Julie Christie, British actress.
1951.- José Maria Mendiluce, Spanish writer and politician.
1953.- José María Dols, “José Mari Manzanares”, Spanish bullfighter.
1955.- Millán Salcedo, Spanish actor and comedian, former member of “Martes y Trece”.
1967.- Alfonso Alonso Aranegui, Spanish politician.
1973.- Adrien Brody, American actor.
1976.- Santiago Abascal, Spanish politician.
1981.- Raúl Bravo Sanfélix, former Spanish soccer player.
1988: Chris Wood, American actor.
Who died on an April 14?
1759.- J. Federico Haendel, English musician.
1910.- Emilio Sala, Spanish painter.
1917.- Lejzer L. Zamenhof, Russian linguist, creator of Esperanto.
1980.- Guillermo Sautier Casaseca, Spanish radio scriptwriter.
1986.- Simone de Beauvoir, French writer.
nineteen ninety five.- Burl Ives, American actor and singer.
.- Mario Carotenuto, Italian actor.
1999.- Nicola Trussardi, Italian fashion designer.
2001.- Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese film director.
2012.- Pedro Macías, journalist and Spanish television presenter.
2015.- Percy Sledge, American singer.
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2017.- Martín Elías, Colombian singer.
2019.- Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress.
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