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On this day for the United States

April 14:

Events

• 1699 - Khalsa. Birth of Khalsa, the The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, U.S. by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
• 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
• 1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, U.S. for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
• 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, U.S..
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
• 1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, U.S..
• 1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington.
• 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
• 1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
• 1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, U.S..
• 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois, U.S..
• 1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
• 1968 - At the U.S. Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar..
• 1981 - The first operational space shuttle, U.S. Columbia, lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.
• 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.
• 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• 1994 - In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
• 2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich filed a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually led the movement against file-sharing programs.
• 2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
• 2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985.
• 2005 - Oregon Supreme Court nullifies nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.