April 14

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[edit] Events

• 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.
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
• 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
• 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization that pursued fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation 25.

[edit] Births

• 1578 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)

[edit] Deaths

• 1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)