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On This Day · The 104th day of the year

April 14

As calendar dates go, April 14 keeps a short memory — its record stays close to the present. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where politics and nation-building recur.

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Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on April 14?

April 14 is the 104th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1906 and 2024. Famous people born on April 14 include John Shea, Philip III of Spain and Christiaan Huygens.

Released on April 14

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Regions of Ruin: Runegate
  • Game Replaced
  • Game Dosa Divas
  • Game Windrose
  • TV Margo's Got Money Troubles

2025

  • Game Forever Skies

2023

  • TV Pokémon Horizons

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1906

    Azusa Street Revival

  2. 1908

    Hauser Dam

  3. 1940

    World War II

  4. 1967

    Gnassingbé Eyadéma

  5. 1978

    1978 Georgian demonstrations

  6. 1991

    Georgia (country)

  7. 1999

    1999 Sydney hailstorm

  8. 2002

    Venezuela

  9. 2005

    Oregon Supreme Court

  10. 2024

    2024 Persian Gulf floods

Famous birthday twins

Born on April 14

John Shea

b. 1949

Philip III of Spain

b. 1578

Christiaan Huygens

b. 1629

Averroes

b. 1126

Erwin Hoffer

b. 1987

Moritz Schlick

b. 1882

Efim Bogoljubow

b. 1889

Peter Behrens

b. 1868

Deaths

  • 2021Bernie Madoff
  • 1986Simone de Beauvoir
  • 1935Emmy Noether
  • 1917L. L. Zamenhof
  • 1792Maximilian Hell
  • 1759George Frideric Handel

Holidays & observances

  • —Ambedkar Jayanti (India)
  • —Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)
  • —Black Day (South Korea)
  • —Cake and Cunnilingus Day
  • —Christian feast day: Anthony, John, and Eustathius
  • —Christian feast day: Bénézet
  • —Christian feast day: Henry Beard Delany (U.S. Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Domnina of Terni

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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