April 14, 1828
Noah Webster copyrights his
American Dictionary of the English Language.
1846
The Donner Party departs Springfield, Illinois headed for California. Some of them got hungry.
Damn hungry.
1860
The first
Pony Express (founded (in part) by my homeboy
Alexander Majors) rider reached San Francisco.
1865
Abe Lincoln takes in a show.
1881
The
Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurs in El Paso, Texas.
1912
The
RMS Titanic, touted as unsinkable, proves otherwise.
1956
Videotape is first demonstrated.
1999
The costliest Australian natural disaster,
a hailstorm, strikes Sydney, dishing out A$2.3 billion in insured damages.
Births
Christiaan Huygens-1629; Anne Sullivan-1866; John Gielgud-1904; Rod Steiger-1925; Loretta Lynn-1932; Pete Rose-1941; Ritchie Blackmore-1945;
Deaths
John Singer Sargent-1925; Richard Hickock (of 'In Cold Blood' infamy)-1965; Burl Ives-1995; Don Ho-2007; Percy Sledge-2015