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April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) ... Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. Boko Haram claims responsibility. [28]
Lucy Reed (April 14, 1924 –July , 1998), American jazz vocalist, would have turned 100 this year. Gil Fuller (April 14, 1920 –May 26, 1994), American arranger and composer, would have turned 104 this year. Gene Ammons (April 14, 1925 –August 06, 1974), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 99 this year.
Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti is observed on 14 April to commemorate the memory of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and the principal architect of constitution of India. [1] [2] The observance marks the birthday of Ambedkar, who was born on 14 April 1891.
On April 8, a Bhutanese soldier named Jambay Dukpa confessed to firing the shot, after being arrested ten miles away at the city of Tala. [22] A United States Marine Corps F-8C fighter suffered a mechanical malfunction and crashed into a residential neighborhood at Hara Machida near Tokyo, killing four people on the ground and injuring 32 ...
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
We've got 16 famous people and celebrities born on July 4. Tom Cruise may have starred in the Oscar-winning 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July , but he missed it being his actual birthday (July ...
The morning experiments were repeated on April 10 and April 12, and the data was published in the journal Science on February 5, 1960. [ 21 ] By a margin of 386,845 to 314,380 voters in Oklahoma elected to repeal the state's constitutional prohibition on the sale of alcohol, leaving Mississippi as the only dry American state.