Daily Calendar for Friday, April 14, 2023

Events

• The sky was full of unknown moving objects in Nuremberg, Germany – 1561
• Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language printed – 1828
• President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C. – 1865
• New Jersey passed the first law providing state aid for public roads – 1891
• John Harvey Kellogg patented process to make cornflakes – 1896
• James Cash Penney opened his first store, Kemmerer, Wyoming – 1902
• President William Howard Taft threw a pitch to open the baseball season – 1910
• The world’s largest passenger ship, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage – 1912
• Dr. Harry Plotz’s discovery of the cause of typhus was formally announced – 1915
• Judge ruled “aspirin” is generic trademark in U.S. – 1921
• Katharine Hepburn became the first to win three Best Actress Oscars – 1969
• First major league baseball game in Canada, Expos vs. Cardinals – 1969
• Don Calhoun won $1 million by making a 79-foot shot in a basketball contest – 1993
• 51-pound 4-ounce monkfish caught in Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts – 2008
• Beatle George Harrison received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame – 2009
• 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 – 2010