April 14th, 1979

Born on April 14th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on April 14th?

April 14th, 2014

Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria.

April 14th, 1999

A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.

April 14th, 1994

Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.

April 14th, 1983

Let's Dance, English musician David Bowie's best-selling album, was released.

April 14th, 1970

After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here" (audio featured).

April 14th, 1967

After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held until 2005.

April 14th, 1945

World War II: The German town of Friesoythe was razed by the 4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.

April 14th, 1944

The freighter Fort Stikine, carrying cotton bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour of Bombay, India, sinking surrounding ships and causing about 800 deaths.

April 14th, 1935

Dust Bowl: A severe dust storm swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairies.

April 14th, 1909

Following a reactionary military revolt against the Committee of Union and Progress, a mob began a massacre of Armenian Christians in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

April 14th, 1908

The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.

April 14th, 1865

Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

April 14th, 1471

Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

April 14th, 0966

Polish ruler Mieszko I converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

April 14th, 2024

Flooding in the Persian Gulf starts, killing 19 in Oman.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 14th

Born on April 14th, 1979

45

Sascha Goc

German ice hockey player

*April 14th, 1979, Calw

45

Marcus Dunstan

American film director and screenwriter

*April 14th, 1979, Macomb

45

Kerem Tunçeri

Turkish basketball player

*April 14th, 1979, Istanbul

45

Ross Filipo

New Zealand Rugby union footballer

*April 14th, 1979, Lower Hutt

45

Marios Elia

Cypriot footballer (born 1979)

*April 14th, 1979, Nicosia

45

Noé Pamarot

French association football player

*April 14th, 1979, Fontenay-sous-Bois

45

Rebecca DiPietro

American model

*April 14th, 1979, Rehoboth

45

Joanna Haartti

Finnish actress

*April 14th, 1979, Finland

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 14th?

29

Niklas Stark

German footballer

*April 14th, 1995, Neustadt an der Aisch

47

Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress

*April 14th, 1977, New York City

37

Steven Holcomb

American bobsledder

*April 14th, 1980, Park City †May 6th, 2017, Lake Placid

48

Georgeta Damian

Romanian rower

*April 14th, 1976, Dracșani

89

Egil Monn-Iversen

Norwegian composer, conductor and producer

*April 14th, 1928, Oslo †July 7th, 2017, Oslo

49

Tino Chrupalla

German politician

*April 14th, 1975, Weißwasser

50

Laura Tonke

German actress

*April 14th, 1974, West Berlin

48

Santiago Abascal Conde

Absurd and useless Spanish politician and leader of the VOX party

*April 14th, 1976, Bilbao

51

Adrien Brody

American actor

*April 14th, 1973, Woodhaven

64

Brad Garrett

American actor and stand-up comedian

*April 14th, 1960, Woodland Hills

35

Joe Haden

American football player (born 1989)

*April 14th, 1989, Fort Washington

46

Louisy Joseph

French solo singer and former member of L5

*April 14th, 1978, Vénissieux

65

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)

*April 14th, 1891, Bhim Janmabhoomi †December 6th, 1956, Dr. Ambedkar National Memorial

89

Erich von Däniken

Swiss writer

*April 14th, 1935, Zofingen

58

Lloyd Owen

British actor

*April 14th, 1966, Charing Cross

44

Win Butler

Canadian-American singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist; member of the band Arcade Fire

*April 14th, 1980, Houston

56

Nicolas Pothier

French comics artist

*April 14th, 1968, Poitiers

82

Margaret Alva

Governor of the Indian state of Rajasthan

*April 14th, 1942, Mangaluru

95

Thomas Schelling

American economist (1921-2016)

*April 14th, 1921, Oakland †December 13th, 2016, Bethesda

46

Colleen Shannon

American model, DJ, and actress

*April 14th, 1978, Arkansas

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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