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04-14-2006, 12:04 PM
April 14: Good Friday in Western Christianity, Vaisakhi in India (2006); Pohela Baishakh in Bangladesh.
* 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
* 1931 - King Alfonso XIII left Spain. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
* 1956 - The use of the 2″ Quadruplex videotape was first demonstrated in public.
* 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.
* 2003 - The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.
* 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
* 1931 - King Alfonso XIII left Spain. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
* 1956 - The use of the 2″ Quadruplex videotape was first demonstrated in public.
* 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.
* 2003 - The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.