April 14

Today in History
• 43 BC - Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina
• 0193 - Lucius Septimius Severus crowned Emperor of Rome
• 0966 - Christianisation of Poland - Polish ruler Mieszko I and his court baptized
• 1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
• 1471 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Barnet - Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians
• 1570 - Polish Calvinists, Lutherans and Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
• 1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
• 1756 - Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Air Force Reserve Birthday
• Ambedkar Jayanti
• Cambodian New Year
• National Dolphin Day
• Orthodox Good Friday
• Pan American Day
• Tamil New Year Cultural
• Vaisakhi / Baisakhi / Vishu

Birthdays
• 1578 - Philip III, King of Spain and Portugal, 1598 - 1621
• 1629 - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer, discovered Saturn's rings
• 1721 - William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
• 1738 - Duck of Portland, C, British Prime Minister, 1783, 1807-09
• 1770 - George Canning, London, British Prime Minister, 1827
• 1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic, 1871-77
• 1813 - Junius S. Morgan, U.S., merchant/philanthropist, Metro Museum of Art
• 1866 - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, U.S., educated Helen Keller