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What happend on 14th April
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1962
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
1956
Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It was the demonstation of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.
1944
Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944).
1940
Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
1935
Babe Ruth played his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox, in this, his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this season, Ruth played 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.
1935
"Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
1931
Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
1912
The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.
1910
President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first baseball on opening day.
1894
Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
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