Historical Events on April 14.

1.  Historical events in Indian and world history on April 14.

2.  1661, 14th April: Prince Sessie first used the term telescope for telescopes.

3.  1699, 14th April: The tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Govind Singh, established the Khalsa Panth.

4.  1865, 14th April: U.S. President Abraham Lincon was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

5.  Lincoln died the next day.

6.  1912, 14th April: RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm (local time).

7.  1944, 14th April: A cargo ship, the Fort Stickin, docked at Mumbai dock, explodes at 4:05 pm, killing 300 people and causing (then) financial loss of about 20 million pounds.

8.  1995, 14th April: Dr. Ramesh Babu set a world record for holding 6,670 consecutive rallies in table tennis in Pune.

9.  2006, 14th April: Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in Jama Masjid, Delhi, injured 13 people.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on April 14.

1.  1629: Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor.

2.  1872: Abdullah Yusuf Ali, a British-Indian barrister. He translated the Quran into English.

3.  1891: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, an Indian jurist, economist, politician, and social reformer. He is known as “the Sculptor of the Indian Constitution”.

4.  1919: Shamshad Begum, an Indian singer.

5.  1919: K. Saraswathi Amma, a Malayalam feminist writer.

6.  1922: Ali Akbar Khan, an Indian Hindustani classical musician.

7.  1957: Kailasavadivoo Sivan, an Indian space scientist.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on April 14.

1.  1950: Ramana Maharshi, an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta. 

2.  1962: Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, an Indian civil engineer and statesman.

3.  1963: Rahul Sankrityayan, the Father of Indian Travelogue Travel literature.

4.  1997: Chandu Parkhi, an Indian actor.

5.  2013: Rama Prasad Goenka, Indian business magnate.