April 14th

• 1831

  Manchester bridge collapses under marching soldiers. View Post →

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• 1912

  Titanic hits iceberg; begins sinking.

• 1935

  'Black Sunday' dust storm devastates Midwest, 'Dust Bowl' named.

• 1958

  Sputnik 2 with Laika burns up on reentry.

• 1986

  Ferry sinks in Bangladesh storm, 200 dead.

• 1993

  'Bill Nye the Science Guy' debuts in US.

• 1994

  US F-15 mistakenly downs 2 US helicopters in Iraq, 26 die.

• 1999

  Severe hailstorm in Sydney; most costly natural disaster in Australia.

• 2003

  Human Genome Project completed, 99% of genome sequenced.

• 2021

  Coinbase debuts on New York Stock Exchange.

• 1865

  Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth.