Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 14
April 14: Good Friday in Western Christianity, Vaisakhi in India (2006); Pohela Baishakh in Bangladesh.
- 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 the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.
- 2003 - The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.