Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14
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- 1828 - Spelling reformer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English.
- 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre.
- 1912 - The transatlantic ocean liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
- 1931 - The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
- 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.