On This Day April 14th

 OTD

April 14th is the One Hundred-Fourth Day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 261 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed, and Edward resumes the throne.

1561 – A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.

1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America, was organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.

1894 – The first commercial motion picture house opened in New York City, United States. It uses ten Kinetoscopes, devices for watching films on the peepshow.

1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.

1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.

1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia, completes its first test flight.

 

 

Birthdays

1126 – Averroes, Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher (d. 1198)

1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695)

1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936)

1917 – Marvin Miller, American baseball executive (d. 2012)

1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2022)

1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager.

 

Holidays And Observance

NATIONAL GARDENING DAY

National Gardening Day was established by Cool Springs Press in 2018 to celebrate gardening as a hobby and to encourage gardeners to share their knowledge and expertise.

 

Forest gardening, a food production system based on forests, is the oldest form of gardening known to mankind. Forest gardens existed in prehistoric times along jungle banks. Evidence from ancient Egyptian paintings from around 1500 BC shows that people were gardening for pleasure and aesthetics.

 

During the Middle Ages, gardening declined but became popular again during Elizabethan times with the emergence of cottage gardens. These gardens contained food and herbs with flowers added for decorative purposes. Gradually, gardens became more open-plan and less rigid in structure. By the mid-19th century, European gardens began to take the form we are familiar with today.

 

In the US, the earliest gardeners were essentially harvesters. In the 17th and 18th centuries, those who owned land and gardens would try to make money by harvesting suitable crops. Home gardening became a leisure activity in the 1800s as villages grew and mass production began. Ornamental gardens replaced edible gardens, and research on plant diseases and pests began.

 

Over the last 150 years, gardens have become increasingly social spaces, and new methods and equipment have been developed to enhance gardeners' knowledge and experience.

 

Others Include.

Air Force Reserve Birthday

Children with Alopecia Day

Day of the Georgian Language (Georgia)

Dictionary Day

Dreams of Reason Feast Day

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse

Good Deeds Day

International Moment of Laughter Day

Look up at the Sky Day

National Dolphin Day

National Ex-Spouse Day

National Gardening Day

National Pecan Day

National Perfume Day

Pan American Day

Pathologists Assistant Day

Rainn Day (Rape Abuse Incest National Network)

Reach as High as You Can Day

World Quantum Day

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