On This Day:
Tuesday April 14, 2015 This is the 104th day of the year, with 261 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: roosters Long ago, when chickens were wild, roosters crowed so loudly to attract a mate that they were in danger of being pounced on by a predator. To avoid being seen, they began to do most of their crowing when the light was dim -- early morning and late afternoon. Today roosters still crow most at those two times. In the morning you notice it more because there are not a lot of other noises at 5 a.m.
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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