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Two-inch quadruplex videotape -
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora -
Noah Webster -
John Wilkes Booth
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa | lead too short, needs more footnotes |
| 1434 – The foundation stone of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, Brittany, France, was first laid, but the building was not completed until more than four centuries later in 1891. | refimprove section |
| 1828 – Lexicographer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – The first Volvo automobile was built in the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden. | date not cited, refimprove section |
| 1931 – After King Alfonso XIII left Spain, the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora. | refimprove section |
| 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and a major factor in his 1962 Nobel Prize award, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – The use of 2-inch quadruplex, the first practical and commercially successful videotape format, was first demonstrated in public. | unreferenced section |
| 2003 – The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – In Ankara, Turkey, the first of the Republic Protests took place, when hundreds of thousands of people protested against the possible presidential candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. | list should be converted to prose |
| 2010 – Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days. | need to verify date -- earliest date with citation is 15 Apr |
| Rachel Carson (d. 1964) | duplicate scope |
Eligible
- 193 – Septimius Severus seized the throne of the Roman Empire after the death of Pertinax during the Year of the Five Emperors.
- 966 – Mieszko I, ruler of the Polans, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians near the town of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
- 1865 – Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- 1906 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
- 1909 – Following a military revolt against the constitutional government, a mob began a massacre of Armenians in Adana Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.
- 1935 – A massive dust storm swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300,000,000 short tons (270,000,000 t) of topsoil.
- 1944 – The freighter SS Fort Stikine, carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour in Bombay, India, sinking surrounding ships and killing about 800 people.
- 1967 – After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post which he held until 2005.
- 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, causing the NASA spacecraft to lose most of its oxygen and electrical power.
- 1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1994 – In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two US Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two US Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- 1999 – A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
- 2010 – Nearly 2,700 people were killed in a magnitude 6.9 Mw earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
- Born/died this day: Rod Steiger (b. 1925) · Sarah Michelle Gellar (b. 1977)
Notes
- RMS Titanic listed on April 15
- A Dictionary of the English Language appears on April 15 so Noah Webster should not appear in the same year.
April 14: Rama Navami (Hinduism, 2019); Bengali New Year, Vaisakhi (Sikhism), Tamil New Year, and other New Year festivals in Asia (2018); Day of the Georgian language in Georgia (1978)
- 1561 – In Nuremberg, there was a mass sighting of celestial phenomena (illustration pictured) where observers described an "aerial battle" between odd-shaped objects.
- 1908 – The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed and caused severe flooding and damage downstream.
- 1945 – The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
- 2014 – Boko Haram kidnapped 276 female students from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
Christiaan Huygens (b. 1629) · Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857) · L. L. Zamenhof (d. 1917)