April 14th
Today in America's Present Past
1715 | Indian Wars: Yamasee War begins.
1775 | Civil Rights: The first abolitionist society in the U.S. was organized in Philadelphia.
1772 | Pine Tree Riot.
1828 | America’s first dictionary is published by Noah Webster.
1841 | Edgar Allan Poe publishes the first detective story, “Murders in Rue Morgue.”
1858 | Civil Rights: Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Tubman at a convention.
1865 | Lewis Powell attacks U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family as part of the same conspiracy that assassinated Lincoln.
1865 | POTUS: Republican President Lincoln assassinated.
1896 | John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal.”
1902 | Entrepreneur James Cash Penny opens his first store.
1906 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in the press.
1910 | POTUS: Republican President Taft begins the tradition of throwing the ceremonial first pitch on the Opening Day of baseball season.
1912 | The RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg with 306 Americans aboard.
1918 | WWI: Douglas Campbell becomes America’s first “ACE,” shooting down the fifth German plane.
1919 | Civil Rights: “Red Summer race riots” in Jenkins County, Georgia.
1921 | Economist Thomas Schelling was born.
1924 | Architect Louis Sullivan died.
1932 | Musician Loretta Lynn was born.
1935 | Black Sunday dust storm ravages the central midwest, named the "Dust Bowl.”
1938 | Activist Lilly Ledbetter was born.
1939 | Novelist John Steinbeck publishes "The Grapes of Wrath.”
1944 | WWII: General Eisenhower was promoted to the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
1945 | WWII: U.S. forces liberate Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany.
1950 | Scientist Francis Collins was born.
1960 | Motown Records is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan.
1964 | Biologist Rachel Carson died.
1973 | Actor Adrien Brody was born.
1986 | War on Terror: U.S. strikes Libya in retaliation for terrorist attacks.
2011 | Chemist William Lipscomb died.
2020 | Entrepreneur Hank Steinbrenner died.