Today is Monday, April 14, the 104th day of 2014. There are 261 days left in the year.
1611 ― Word “telescope” is first used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1814 ― Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba
1859 ― Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” published
1865 ― President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
1894 ― First public showing of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 ― First performance of Gustav Mahler’s (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium
1904 ― George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida”, premieres in London
1912 ― The Titanic strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, at about 11:30 p.m., and sinks early the next morning (1500+ death toll)
1978 ― Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia