On This Day for April 14 - Abraham Lincoln shot, Julie Christie is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-14 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-14 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 14

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Julie Christie

FEATURED EVENT

1865

Abraham Lincoln shot

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2014: The Islamic sectarian movement Boko Haram kidnapped more than 275 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, sparking worldwide condemnation.

2010: Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland began sending ash plumes into the skies, disrupting air traffic for days across northern and central Europe. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about natural disasters.]

2004: Bartholomew I , ecumenical patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, formally accepted the apology offered by Pope John Paul II in 2001 for the sacking of Constantinople (now Istanbul) by Crusader armies in the early 13th century. [Take our pope quiz.]

1986: A force of U.S. warplanes based in Britain bombed several sites in Libya, killing or wounding several of Muammar al-Qaddafi's children and narrowly missing Qaddafi himself. [Test your knowledge of Libya.]

1941: American professional baseball player Pete Rose, known for his all-around ability and enthusiasm, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. [How much do you know about baseball?]

1939: American author John Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath—which was set during the Great Depression and traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farmworkers—was published. [ Take our authors of classic literature quiz.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1891

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Indian political leader

1977

Sarah Michelle Gellar
American actress

1941

Pete Rose
American baseball player

1941

Julie Christie
British actress

1932

Loretta Lynn
American singer