April
14
Women’s
Savings Day
Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)
Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande speakers)
New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian
cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox:
Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu (India's Assam
Valley)
Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh
and India's West Bengal state)
Burmese New Year, or Thingyan (Burma)
Sikh New Year, or Vaisakhi (Punjab region)
Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly
celebrated on April 13 (Cambodia)
Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally
celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Laos)
Malayali New Year, or Vishu (India's Kerala state)
Nepali New Year, or Bikram Samwat / Vaishak Ek
(Nepal)
Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi (India's
Orissa state)
Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu (Sri Lanka)
Tamil New Year, or Puthandu (India's Tamil Nadu
state, Sri Lanka)
Thai New Year, or Songkran, celebrated from 13
to 15 April (Thailand)
Tuluva New Year, or Bisu (India's Karnataka state)
The first day of Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama,
Gifu, Japan)
April 14: Women’s Savings Day
Women’s Savings Day is celebrated on 14th
April of Every Year through out India. In Tamilnadu
it is being celebrated in each District with the
participation of the District Collectors. In Chennai
city, the Women’s Savings Day was celebrated with
the participation of Commissioner of Small Savings
and the Regional Director, Nation Savings Institute
and other important officials of State and Central
Government. The Services of the MPKBY agents were
recognized on the day.
Events
1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion
was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood
of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern
India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition
of his dictionary.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of
Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic
hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm.
The ship sinks the following morning with the
loss of 1,517 lives.
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg,
Sweden.
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published
in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst
dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in
Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage
valued then at 20 million pounds.
1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first
demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from
orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle,
Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on
the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing
92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during
Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two
United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down
two United States Army helicopters, killing 26
people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic
Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75
people are killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia
causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the
most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with
99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy
of 99.99%.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude
6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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