• Apr 14 2007

    19 Years ago

    Republic Protests in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


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  • Apr 14 2005

    21 Years ago

    The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County, Oregon.


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  • Apr 14 2003

    23 Years ago

    The Human Genome Project is successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.


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  • Apr 14 2003

    23 Years ago

    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.


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  • Apr 14 2002

    24 Years ago

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.


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  • Apr 14 2000

    26 Years ago

    Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.


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  • Apr 14 1999

    27 Years ago

    NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslavia officials say 75 people are killed.


  • Apr 14 1999

    27 Years ago

    A 1999 Sydney hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing Australian dollar1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.


  • Apr 14 1994

    32 Years ago

    In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly Black Hawk Incident (April 1994) two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.


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  • Apr 14 1988

    38 Years ago

    The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.


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  • Apr 14 1988

    38 Years ago

    In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.


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  • Apr 14 1986

    40 Years ago

    In retaliation for the April 5 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing of the La Belle (discotheque) in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders Operation El Dorado Canyon against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.


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  • Apr 14 1986

    40 Years ago

    1 kg (2.2 pound) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj District (Bangladesh) district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.


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  • Apr 14 1981

    45 Years ago

    STS-1 - The first operational space shuttle, Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102), lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.


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  • Apr 14 1978

    48 Years ago

    1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgia (country) demonstrate against the attempt by the Soviet Union authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.


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  • Apr 14 1968

    58 Years ago

    At the U.S. Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Academy Award for Best Actress.


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  • Apr 14 1964

    62 Years ago

    A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.


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  • Apr 14 1962

    64 Years ago

    Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.


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  • Apr 14 1961

    65 Years ago

    Yuri Gagarin is greeted by mass crowds and Khrushchev in Red Square following his historic first space flight on 12th April


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  • Apr 14 1958

    68 Years ago

    The Soviet Union satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.


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