April 14^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Julie Christie: Biography of the Day

Julie Christie

British film actress Julie Christie, born in India this day in 1941, was renowned for a wide range of roles in English and American films, as well as for her striking looks and offbeat, free-spirited personality.

 

Abraham Lincoln shot: 14 April 1865 - This Day in History

On this day in 1865, just after the American Civil War ended, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning.

More Events on this day:

1986: A force of U.S. warplanes based in Britain bombed several sites in Libya, killing or wounding several of Muammar al-Qaddafi's children and narrowly missing Qaddafi himself.

1924: American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modern American architecture, died in Chicago.

1902: American businessman J.C. Penney opened his first dry-goods store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

1866: Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller's teacher, was born near Springfield, Massachusetts.

1471: The deposed and exiled king of England, Edward IV, defeated King Henry VI's forces at the Battle of Barnet, near London, enabling him to retake the throne.