
1471: The deposed and exiled king of England, Edward IV, defeated King Henry VI’s forces at the Battle of Barnet, near London, enabling him to retake the throne.
1865: On this day, Lincoln was enjoying a play called โOur American Cousinโ at Fordโs Theatre, Washington, D.C. A well-known actor John Wilkes Booth shot the president in the head. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, โSic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,โ as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next morning. John Wilkes Booth wanted to revive the Confederate cause.

1894: 1st public showing of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope (moving pictures).

1912: RMS Titanic, the world’s largest ocean liner, collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink. The iceberg created a gash that was between 220 and 245 feet long. The subsequent sinking of the world’s largest ocean liner of the time resulted in more than 1500 deaths. It was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history.

1931: King Alfonso XIII of Spain is overthrown.

1986: The heaviest hailstones ever recorded hit Bangladesh
The lumps of ice weighed about 1 kg (2.2 lb). A total of 92 people reportedly died as a result.
1986: The United States launches air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens. The raid, which began shortly before 7 p.m. EST (2 a.m., April 15 in Libya), involved more than 100 U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft and was over within an hour. Five military targets and โterrorism centersโ were hit, including the headquarters of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.

1988: The Soviet Union agrees to withdraw from Afghanistan. Soviet troops invaded the country in 1979 to support the communist rulers. They were defeated primarily by the Mujahideen, who were groups of militant Islamists sponsored by the CIA.
1992: South African liberation heroes, the anti-apartheid leaders, Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela announce their divorce.

2003: The Human Genome Project is completed. The project dedicated to mapping the genes of the human genome was started in October 1990.

2014: The Islamic sectarian movement Boko Haram, kidnapped more than 275 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, sparking worldwide condemnation. 57 of the schoolgirls managed to escape over the next few months and some have described their capture in appearances at international human rights conferences.

2021: American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff, who operated the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, died in federal prison at the age of 82.

Births on This Day, April 14
Peter Rose, 83 years
American professional baseball player, known for his all-around ability and enthusiasm, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 14 April 1941. Nicknamed “Charlie Hustle”, he is a former professional team manager.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, 47
Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977, in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent. Sarah was discovered by an agent when she was four years old. Soon after, she was making her first movie An Invasion of Privacy (1983). Besides a long list of movies, she has also appeared in many TV commercials and on the stage. Her breakthrough came with the television series Swans Crossing (1992).

Oliver De Coque (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008)
Oliver Sunday Akanite, better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists. His debut album, Messiah Messiah, was released in 1977. In total, De Coque recorded 93 albums. Many of his songs were noted to be in the Ogene genre, blending modern music with traditional Igbo harmonies. He died at the age of 61 following a cardiac arrest.

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