On This Day:
Monday April 14, 2014 This is the 104th day of the year, with 261 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: pistachio nuts Pistachio nuts are not naturally red. When they were first imported from the Middle East, they were dyed red to hide blemishes and make them stand out in vending machines. Pistachio nuts are still colored red because consumers have become accustomed to the color, but their natural color is light tan for the shell and light green for the nut inside. As the pistachio kernel grows and ripens, it naturally expands until the shell splits open; unsplit shells usually contain unripe kernels. Archaeological evidence in Turkey indicates that pistachios, which belong to the cashew family of nuts, were used for food as early as 7,000 BC.
Holidays Feast day of St. Tiburtius and Companions, St. Caradoc, St. Lambert of Lyons, St. Ardalion, Saints Anthony, John, and Eustace, St. Benezet, St. John of Vilna, St. Bernard of Tiron or Abbeville, and the Martyrs of Lithuania.
Honduras: Dia de las Americas / Pan-American Day.
United States: Pan American Day.
Events 1536 - Wales became part of England.
1775 - The first abolitionist society in United States was organized in Philadelphia, with Ben Franklin as president.
1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington; he died the next morning.
1890 - The Pan-American Union was founded.
1894 - The kinetoscope was demonstrated by its inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, in New York City.
1902 - J.C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1912 - The British liner "Titanic" hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking, taking the lives of over 1,500 people.
1956 - Ampex Corporation demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder.
1986 - The United States launched air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens.
1988 - Representatives of the USSR, Afghanistan, the United States, and Pakistan signed an agreement calling for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan.
2003 - U.S. commandos in Baghdad captured Abul Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985.
Births 1629 - Christian Huygens, Dutch astronomer, physicist, mathematician.
1866 - Anne Sullivan Macy, American teacher of blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller.
1889 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian.
1904 - Sir John Gielgud, award-winning actor.
Deaths 1995 - Burl Ives, American actor and singer.
2007 - Don Ho (born Donald Tai Loy Ho), a Hawaiian musician and entertainer.
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