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Events from History on April 14

1996 : "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1970 : "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1960 : "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1946 : "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs
1992 : "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 : "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1988 : "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 : "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs
1991 : "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1956 : "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs
1985 : "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1972 : "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1959 : (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
1989 : 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1828 : 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1775 : 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1980 : 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1950 : 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1828 : 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1944 : 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1961 : 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1941 : 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1895 : 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1860 : 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
1981 : 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1960 : 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1986 : 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
2002 : 66th Golf Masters Championship:
1191 : 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1948 : A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1973 : Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he
1940 : Allied troops land in Norway
1945 : American planes bombed Tokyo & damaged the Imperial Palace
1956 : Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1909 : Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1945 : Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis
1915 : A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
1544 : Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1471 : Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1862 : Battle of Ft Pillow TN
1574 : Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1913 : Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1994 : Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
1932 : Bizet, Massine & Mir¢'s "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1985 : Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1994 : Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after
1871 : Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1985 : Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1859 : Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published
1917 : Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1994 : completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1836 : Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1671 : Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1992 : Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1961 : Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1978 : David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
1962 : Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1986 : Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1973 : destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1942 : Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1988 : Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1872 : Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1950 : Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1986 : Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1918 : Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1903 : Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1915 : Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1841 : Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published
1955 : Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1629 : England & France sign Peace of Susa
1536 : English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
1923 : Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1984 : Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1861 : Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1971 : Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
1792 : France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1944 : Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1943 : Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1944 : Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1967 : Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1904 : George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
1963 : George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1962 : Georges Pompidou becomes president of France
1028 : German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1756 : Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1944 : Greek Colonel Venizelos forms govt
1853 : Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1989 : In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1967 : In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1949 : International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment
1983 : Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1985 : Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1994 : Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1943 : James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in NYC
1902 : JC Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo
1896 : John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
1939 : John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1959 : KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 : KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1941 : King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1978 : Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1883 : Leo Delibes' opera "Lakm‚," premieres in Paris
1928 : Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1946 : Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR
1902 : Marie & Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
1865 : Mobile, Alabama is captured
1814 : Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba
1799 : Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 : Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1994 : NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
1777 : NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1948 : NYC subway fares jump from 5› to 10›
1890 : Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1912 : Pan American Union forms
1847 : Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1930 : Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1614 : Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe
1570 : Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1865 : Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
1983 : Pres Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1906 : Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1900 : President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1971 : President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1921 : Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1980 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1983 : Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1940 : RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1967 : Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1922 : Republic rebels occupies 4 govt courts in Dublin
1861 : Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1968 : Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1872 : San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1935 : Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1868 : SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1954 : Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1931 : Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1958 : Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1914 : Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1887 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1971 : Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1969 : Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1977 : Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1971 : Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1979 : Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1894 : Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device
1991 : to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
1969 : Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1920 : Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1987 : Turkey asks to join European market
1992 : UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 : UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1945 : US 7th Army & allies forces captured Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1986 : US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1961 : US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1994 : US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1945 : US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 : US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1818 : US Medical Corp forms
1988 : USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1900 : Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1953 : Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1955 : WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 : WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1863 : William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1611 : Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1978 : WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1967 : Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch

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