Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14
April 14: Pohela Baishakh in Bengal, N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa.
- 1865 - John Wilkes Booth (pictured) shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- 1931 - King Alfonso XIII left Spain. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
- 1956 - The use of the 2" Quadruplex videotape was first demonstrated in public.
- 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, causing the NASA spacecraft to lose most of its oxygen and electrical power.
- 1978 - Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.