Summary of the Day ✨ 14 April (14/04)
Deadly flooding in Oman claimed 19 lives while the European Space Agency launched its ambitious JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moons. In global conflicts, Russia lost the warship Moskva in the Black Sea after missile strikes, while Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 88 people in a bus bombing in Nigeria, as Japan experienced a foreshock earthquake ahead of a major seismic event.
Historical Events 📜
- 2024: Flooding in the Persian Gulf starts, killing 19 in Oman.
- 2023: The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency.
- 2022: Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Russian warship Moskva is struck by two anti-ship missiles and sinks into the Black Sea.
- 2016: The foreshock of a major earthquake occurs in Kumamoto, Japan.
- 2014: Two bombs detonate at a bus station in Nyanya, Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. Boko Haram claims responsibility.
- 2014: Boko Haram abducts 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.
- 2006: Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi injure 13 people.
- 2005: The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- 2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2003: U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
- 2002: Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
- 2001: Series of bombings at Ramna Park in Dhaka during the Bengali New Year celebrations leave 10 people dead and dozens other injured.
- 1999: NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
- 1999: A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
- 1997: Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing, is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
Famous Births 👶
- 2001: Jalen Williams, American basketball player
- 2000: Patrick Surtain II, American football player
- 1999: Chase Young, American football player
- 1997: D. J. Moore, American football player
- 1996: Abigail Breslin, American actress
- 1995: Baker Mayfield, American football player
- 1995: Georgie Friedrichs, Australian rugby sevens player
- 1989: Joe Haden, American football player
- 1988: Eric Gryba, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988: Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
- 1988: Brad Sinopoli, Canadian football player
- 1988: Anthony Modeste, French footballer
- 1987: Michael Baze, American jockey (died 2011)
- 1987: Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
- 1987: Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan runner
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian civil servant and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1939)
- 2024: Ken Holtzman, American baseball player (born 1945)
- 2023: Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (The Script) (born 1976)
- 2022: Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957)
- 2022: Ilkka Kanerva, Finnish politician (born 1948)
- 2022: Orlando Julius, Nigerian saxophonist, singer (born 1943)
- 2021: Bernie Madoff, American mastermind of the world’s largest Ponzi scheme (born 1938)
- 2020: Carol D’Onofrio, American public health researcher (born 1936)
- 2019: Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (born 1935)
- 2015: Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and author (born 1942)
- 2015: Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1960)
- 2015: Percy Sledge, American singer (born 1940)
- 2015: Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (born 1921)
- 2014: Nina Cassian, Romanian poet and critic (born 1924)
- 2014: Crad Kilodney, American-Canadian author (born 1948)
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 - Christian feast day:
Lidwina - Christian feast day:
Peter González - Christian feast day:
Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus - Christian feast day:
April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Commemoration of Anfal Genocide Against the Kurds (Iraqi Kurdistan)
- Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
- Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)