History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com
Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - "The Miracle Worker", famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak, Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author , Frank Serpico 1934 


Loretta Lynn 1935 - Country singer, first woman to earn the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award , Julie Christie 1941 - Actress ("Dr. Zhivago", "Shampoo"), Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) 1941 - Baseball player 


1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language." 


1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning. 


1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store. 


1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. 


1918 - The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France. 


1939 - The John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published. 


1984 - The Texas Board of Education began requiring that the state's public school textbooks describe the evolution of human beings as "theory rather than fact". 


1988 - In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion.