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by Richard Frost » Wed Apr 14 2021 10:52am
14 April
World Chagas Disease Day
World Chagas Disease Day is a United Nations observance held annually on April 14. Initiated by the International Federation of Associations of People Affected by Chagas Disease and endorsed by the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body of the World Health Organization), it was first observed on April 14, 2020.
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is a tropical disease caused by parasitic euglenoids spread by the so-called kissing bugs, also known as conenose bugs or vampire bugs (Triatominae). In addition to bug bites, the disease may be spread through eating contaminated food, blood transfusion, organ transplantation, and from a mother to her baby (vertical transmission).
LOOK UP AT THE SKY DAY
On April 14, Look Up At The Sky Day encourages us to admire the beauty above us. On this day we all hope for good weather and an opportunity to fill our eyes with the sky from horizon to horizon.
There are many things that you can see as you sit back, relax and look up. The sky’s beautiful blue colour, the clouds, and their many shapes. Perhaps the sun (maybe peeking through the clouds), and many different birds flying around captures our attention. At night, the skies many stars, the moon, and even the clouds drifting across the sky.
On this day in history
43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned Emperor of Rome
754 Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
966 Christianisation of Poland
972 Notger becomes bishop of Liege
979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1341 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1361 Henry of Grosmont, the richest peer in England, is buried at the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Newarke, Leicester, with the royal family in attendance
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid
1471 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Barnet - Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians and kill the Earl of Warwick
1536 English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 Polish Calvinists, Lutherans and Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 Battle of Mookerhei - D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi
1629 England and France sign Peace of Susa
1671 Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin
1699 Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
1756 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia
1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1818 US Medical Corps forms
1828 British 18-gun sloop HMS Acorn sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication
1831 Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
1836 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 1st detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" (April 1841)
1847 Persia & Ottoman Turkey sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1849 Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader
1858 Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Tubman at a Constitutional Convention convened in Chatham, Ontario
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
1861 Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter (US Civil War)
1862 Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell as part of the same conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later
1868 SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed: Canada's Homestead Act
1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight in El Paso, Texas.
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris
1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington, D.C.)
1894 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1902 J. C. Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers a vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1910 Pan American Union forms
1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 Turkey invades Armenia.
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1932 Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 Black Sunday: Severe dust storm ravages the US Midwest, led to the region being named "the Dust
1936 French singer Édith Piaf questioned after nightclub owner and her patron Louis Leplée murdered in Paris
1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:30:38; his third victory in the event
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunisr
1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC
1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
1945 World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 US Marines attack Yae-Take, the tallest mountain on Okinawa's Motobu Peninsula
1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 performances
1948 A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
1950 1st edition of British comic "Eagle"
1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 performances
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1958 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere
1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical "Bye Bye Birdie", starring Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, and Dick Gautier, opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC; runs for 607 performances
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 American record company Motown, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., is incorporated as Motown Record Corporation
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré
1962 France retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-0 win over Ireland at Stade Colombes, Paris
1963 George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 General Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes President of Togo
1968 32nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bob Goalby shoots a final round 66 (-6) to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of Roberto De Vicenzo who has his card famously marked incorrectly
1969 First regular-season MLB game played outside the United States; Montreal Expos beat St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7 at Parc Jarry, Montreal
1969 41st Academy Awards: "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 Fort Point, San Francisco dedicated as a national historic site
1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1973 Ireland edges France, 6-4 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to create a 5-way tie for the Five Nations Rugby Championship; each nation wins their 2 home matches
1974 38th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Gary Player wins the 2nd of his 3 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of Dave Stockton and Tom Weiskopf
1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 David Hare's "Plenty" premieres in London
1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1978 Thousands of Georgians demonstrate in the capital Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language
1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd Academy Awards: "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
1983 US President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1984 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 49th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bernhard Langer wins by 2 strokes from Seve Ballesteros, Curtis Strange & Raymond Floyd; first German champion
1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, George Strait, and Reba McEntire win
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of Capetown
1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1988 "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 performances
1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 55th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Welshman Ian Woosnam wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of José María Olazábal; 4th straight year the Masters champion is from the UK
1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 60th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Masters and 6th and final major title, 5 strokes ahead of Greg Norman of Australia
1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2000 Metallica file a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This lawsuit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2002 66th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods becomes the 3rd player to claim back-to-back Masters, 3 strokes ahead of Retief Goosen of South Africa
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985
2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2007 160th Grand National: 33–1 shot Silver Birch, ridden by Robbie Power, edges out McKelvey to win by three-quarters of a length
2008 42nd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift and Trace Adkins win
2010 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier
2012 J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website "Pottermore"
2012 165th Grand National: Daryl Jacob wins aboard Neptune Collonges; beats Sunnyhillboy in a photo finish and the closest ever GN finish
2012 Beastie Boys inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Adam Yauch too ill to attend
2013 20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru
2013 11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China
2013 77th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Adam Scott wins his first major title and becomes first Australian Masters champion with a 2nd hole sudden death playoff win against Ángel
2013 Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
2013 Comedian Kevin Hart is arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in California
2015 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
2017 Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 26
2017 "The Fate of the Furious" directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and The Rock opens worldwide - highest-grossing weekend at $532 million
2017 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "Damn" (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
2018 National Gardening Day, since 2018 and according to the National Day Calendar
2018 Beyoncé is the first black woman to headline the Coachella Music Festival, her performance on this day the most-watched performance ever on YouTube
2018 US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack
2018 171st Grand National: Davey Russell wins aboard 10/1 Tiger Roll in a photo finish from Pleasant Company
2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Nina Simone; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Bon Jovi; The Cars; Dire Straits; and Moody Blues
2019 83rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters title by 1 stroke from Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka; Woods' 15th major and first in 11 years
2019 South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential campaign in Indiana, first openly gay candidate to run for US president
2019 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi
2019 Seychelles President Danny Faure makes first-ever live speech from a submersible pleading for better marine protection
2019 11 tornadoes hit US southern states killing eight in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana
2020 Former President Barack Obama endorses his former Vice President Joe Biden for president
2020 PM Narendra Modi extends India's COVID-19 lockdown until May 3
2020 Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
2020 IMF warns the global economy expected to contract by 3% in 2020 due to COVID-19 "Great Lockdown", steepest downturn since the Great Depression
2020 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism