Daily Calendar for April 14th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1560s

• 1561: The sky was full of unknown moving objects in Nuremberg, Germany

1820s

• 1828: Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language printed

1860s

• 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C.

• Born 1866: Anne Sullivan (teacher and mentor to Helen Keller)

1890s

• 1891: New Jersey passed the first law providing state aid for public roads

• 1896: John Harvey Kellogg patented process to make cornflakes

1900s

• 1902: James Cash Penney opened his first store, Kemmerer, Wyoming

1910s

• 1910: President William Howard Taft threw a pitch to open the baseball season

• 1912: The world's largest passenger ship, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage

1920s

• 1921: Judge ruled “aspirin” is generic trademark in U.S.100 Years Ago

1930s

• Born 1935: Loretta Lynn (singer)

1940s

• Born 1941: Pete Rose (baseball player)

1960s

• Born 1960: Brad Garrett (actor)

• 1969: First major league baseball game in Canada, Expos vs. Cardinals

• 1969: Katharine Hepburn became the first to win three Best Actress Oscars

1970s

• Born 1973: Adrien Brody (actor)

• Born 1977: Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress)

1990s

• 1993: Don Calhoun won $1 million by making a 79-foot shot in a basketball contest

• Died 1995: Burl Ives (actor & singer)

• Born 1996: Abigail Breslin (actress)

2000s

• Died 2002: Buck Baker (race car driver)

• Died 2007: Don Ho (entertainer)

• 2008: 51-pound 4-ounce monkfish caught in Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts

• 2009: Beatle George Harrison received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

2010s

• 2010: A massive fireball shot across the evening sky, visible for about 15 minutes in the Midwest. A sonic boom and lightning were reported.

• 2010: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake devastated China’s Yushu County in the Qinghai Province

• Died 2011: Trevor Bannister (actor)

• Died 2011: Walter Breuning (retired railroad worker from Montana who was, at the time of his death, the world's oldest man at 114 years old.)