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On This Day in History – April 14
1831 Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington; he dies a day later.
1912 The RMS Titanic, the world’s largest ocean liner, strikes an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland, Canada, during her maiden voyage.
1958 The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2, carrying the dog Laika as part of a space survival experiment, burns up during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
1981 The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth after 2 days and 6 hours in space.
1986 In a progressive but controversial move, Desmond Tutu is elected Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.
1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees; Yugoslav officials report 75 deaths.
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 US troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group responsible for the Achille Lauro hijacking in 1985.
2012 J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website Pottermore.
2013 Thirty-three people are killed when a bus plunges off a cliff-side road in Trujillo, Peru.
2017 A rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 26 people.
2019 Seychelles President Danny Faure delivers the first-ever live speech from a submersible, calling for stronger marine protection.
2021 US President Joe Biden announces, “It’s time to end America’s longest war,” confirming the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11.
2022 Catastrophic flooding continues in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with the death toll rising after days of heavy rain, marking one of the country’s worst natural disasters in recent history.
2024 Iran launches a major drone and missile attack on Israel overnight (April 13–14), marking the first direct large-scale strike from Iranian territory against Israel.
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