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Today in History: April 14

43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.

1471 The Earl of Warwick, who fought on both sides in the War of the Roses, is killed at the Battle of Barnet with the defeat of the Lancastrians.

1543 Bartolome Ferrelo returns to Spain after discovering a large bay in the New World (San Francisco).

1860 The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.

1865 President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

1912 The passenger liner Titanic--deemed unsinkable--strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and begins to sink. The ship will go under the next day with a loss of 1,500 lives.

1969 The first major league baseball game in Montreal, Canada is played.

1981 America's first space shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth.

1983 US President Ronald Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue

2015 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans

2020 PM Narendra Modi extends India's COVID-19 lockdown until May 3

2020 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism

2021 US President Biden says "It's time to end America's longest war" confirming his decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by Sept 11

Born on April 14

1866 Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.

1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar(46th Birthday)American actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), born in New York City

JOTD
A man asks his wife, "What would you do if I won the lottery?" She replied, "I'd take half then leave you."

"Sweet!", he replied. "I won $20. Here's $10. Now bugger off."