This Day in History Apr. 14

Apr. 14

1756 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia Indians
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1828 Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
1846 The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California
1861 Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter
1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 Battle of Fort Pillow TN
1865 Mobile AL is captured
1865 President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers nnalert against typhoid (New York NY)
1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th)
1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1945 American B-29 incendiary raids on Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1956 In Chicago, videotape is first demonstrated
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1967 In the Vietnam War, US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time
1971 President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1973 FBI director P Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft

On April 14 a Navy EC 121 was shot down by north Korea over international waters. All 31 crew members were lost.

Dang edit feature. Should of said April 14 1969.