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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