Daily Calendar for Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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Burl Ives (actor & singer) – 1995
Buck Baker (race car driver) – 2002
Don Ho (entertainer) – 2007
Trevor Bannister (actor) – 2011
Walter Breuning (retired railroad worker from Montana who was, at the time of his death, the world’s oldest man at 114 years old.) – 2011

The sky was full of unknown moving objects in Nuremberg, Germany – 1561
Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language printed – 1828
President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C. – 1865
New Jersey passed the first law providing state aid for public roads – 1891
John Harvey Kellogg patented process to make cornflakes – 1896
James Cash Penney opened his first store, Kemmerer, Wyoming – 1902
President William Howard Taft threw a pitch to open the baseball season – 1910
The world’s largest passenger ship, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage – 1912
Dr. Harry Plotz’s discovery of the cause of typhus was formally announced – 1915
Judge ruled “aspirin” is generic trademark in U.S. – 1921
Katharine Hepburn became the first to win three Best Actress Oscars – 1969
First major league baseball game in Canada, Expos vs. Cardinals – 1969
Don Calhoun won $1 million by making a 79-foot shot in a basketball contest – 1993
51-pound 4-ounce monkfish caught in Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts – 2008
Beatle George Harrison received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame – 2009
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake devastated China’s Yushu County in the Qinghai Province – 2010
A massive fireball shot across the evening sky, visible for about 15 minutes in the Midwest. A sonic boom and lightning were reported. – 2010

Severe coastal storm, Virginia and North Carolina – 1877
Devastating tornado cut 20 mile path through St. Cloud, Minnesota – 1886
Today into the following day: 87 inches of snow fell in 27.5 hours in Silver Lake, Colorado – 1921
The Black Blizzard, a huge dust storm, blew through the drought-stricken Great Plains. The day became known as “Black Sunday.” – 1935
“Black Sunday” dust storms hit the Great Plains, displacing more than 300,000 tons of topsoil. – 1935
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, received 13 inches of snow – 1983