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1293 - ★Chinzei Tandai is established in the northern part of Kyush, Japan. (timeline)
It is a military post which is particularly established for preparing for another Mongol invasion.
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1795 - ◆(Japan's legal birthday) "Maria Schicklgruber","grandmother of Adolf Hitler". (timeline)
(Japan's legal birthday) April 14, 1795
(birthday) April 15, 1795
(birthday Japan time) April 16, 1795
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1828 - ▼"Noah Webster" copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
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1865 - ◆President Abraham Lincoln is shot. He dies the next day (on April 15).
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1912 - ◆Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm.
(Julian calendar) April 1, 1912
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks the following morning (on April 15) with the loss of 1,517 lives.
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1912 - ◆(birth) Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea.
(Japan's legal birthday April 14, 1912: birthday April 15, 1912)
(Julian calendar) April 1, 1912
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1981 - ▲(birth) Shinjiro Koizumi, a Japanese politician.
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1984 - ★(birth) Harumafuji Kohei, a Mongolian sumo wrestler.
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1995 - ◆Shintaro Ishihara suddenly resigns from the Diet.
The day is genpuku 14th birthday of Shinjiro Koizumi (April 14, 1981). They are distant relatives. And Ishihara is older, more popular and more experienced than Koizumi. Ishihara becomes the Tokyo governor in 1999. Koizumi's father becomes prime minister in 2001. However, the event above critically indicates that Shinjiro Koizumi is of nobler ancestry than Ishihara, probably thanks to his mother.
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1999 - ▲A minor strangles a mother and her baby in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
A 17-year-old boy, Takayuki Fukuda, strangles a mother and her baby.
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1999 - ▲NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Dakovica.
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1999 - ▲Sydney hailstorm.
A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
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2001 - ▲The Japanese Red Army declares its disbandment.
Its leader Fusako Shigenobu issues a statement from detention declaring the Japanese Red Army is disbanding.
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The Japanese Red Army was obviously a group of the government's agents. And it is obvious that Shigenobu celebrates Shinjiro Koizumi's 20th birthday (April 14, 1981).
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2010 - ◆Yushu earthquake. Nearly 2,700 are killed (Yushu, Qinghai, China).
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2010 - ◆Eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull.
Although relatively small for volcanic eruptions, the eruptions cause enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days.
April 14 ⇒Back
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June 6, 1838 - ▼(birth) Thomas Blake Glover, Scottish merchant in Meiji period Japan.
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May 8, 1895 - ◆The Treaty of Shimonoseki takes effect. (timeline) (JD Timeline)
The day is the 280th anniversary of the Siege of Osaka (May 8, 1615 in the Japanese calendar).
The day is April 14 in the Japanese calendar and is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865).
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May 15, 1916 - ★(birth) Takeshi Abe, hemophilia expert.
He faces an appeals trial over his acquittal in a professional negligence case in the HIV-tainted blood scandal.
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May 23, 1937 - ▼A statue of Saigo is erected in Kagoshima.
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May 23, 1937 - ▼(death) John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist.
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May 20, 1940 - ★(birth) Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player.
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May 14, 1984 - ◆(birth) Mark Zuckerberg, computer programmer, co-founder of Facebook.
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May 14, 1984 - ◆Toyota releases Hilux Surf in Japan (Japanese Wikipedia).
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