📜 This Day in History

April 14

• 43 BCWar of Mutina: Despite initial success, troops loyal to Mark Antony were defeated near the Via Aemilia in northern Italy by legions loyal to the Roman Senate.
• 1865Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
• 1935Dust Bowl: A severe dust storm swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairies.
• 1970After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here".
• 2005The Oregon Supreme Court nullified marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
• 2024Flooding in the Persian Gulf began, killing 19 in Oman.

Born on this day

• 1126Averroes, Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher (died 1198)
• 1629Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1695)
• 1891B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist, jurist, and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Law and Justice (died 1956)
• 1906Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (died 1975)