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What happened in history on this day: April 14?
On April 14 in ...
- 1894 - First commercial public showing of Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The Holland Bros Kinetoscope Parlor in New York, USA, shows five short films for 25 cents.
- 1959 - CBS airs the last (until 1974) Your Hit Parade TV show.
- 1961 - First live television broadcast from the Soviet Union.
- 1980 - 52nd Academy Awards: Best Picture: Kramer versus Kramer, Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Best Actress: Sally Field, Best Foreign Film: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (first Oscar award for a German film).
- 1982 - The CBS TV network airs the last episode of the TV series Herbie, the Love Bug. Only five episodes were produced.
- 2002 - ABC airs the last episode of TV show Once and Again.
- 2017 - Universal releases the film The Fate of the Furious to theaters.
Births on April 14
- 1889 - Birth of James Stephenson; actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew).
- 1898 - Birth of Lee Tracy in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; actor (Martin Kane - Martin Kane Private Eye).
- 1900 - Birth of Salvatore Baccaloni in Rome; actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby).
- 1904 - Birth of John Gielgud in London, England; actor (Arthur, Ages of Man).
- 1907 - Birth of Phyllis Konstam in London, England; actress (Murder, Skin Game).
- 1913 - Birth of John Howard in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Dave - My Three Sons).
- 1917 - Birth of Valerie Hobson in North Ireland; actress (Great Expectations).
- 1918 - Birth of Mary Healy in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress (Second Fiddle, He Married his Wife).
- 1925 - Birth of Rod Steiger in West Hampton, New York, USA; actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker, Chosen).
- 1927 - Birth of Dany Robin; actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta).
- 1927 - Birth of Gloria Jean in Buffalo, New York, USA; actress (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break).
- 1930 - Birth of Bradford Dillman in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer).
- 1930 - Birth of Jay Robinson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop).
- 1935 - Birth of Joan Darling in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Frieda - Owen Marshall).
- 1940 - Birth of Patricia Bruder in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Ellen - As the World Turns).
- 1945 - Birth of Derek Leckenby; rocker/actor ("Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter").
- 1948 - Birth of John Shea in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA; actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois and Clark).
- 1950 - Birth of Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes; actress (Blindgangers).
- 1950 - Birth of Randolph Powell in Iowa City, Iowa, USA; actor (Alan - Dallas, Logan's Run).
- 1955 - Birth of Simone Griffeth in Savannah, Georgia, USA; actress (Death Race 2000, Bret Maverick, Amanda's).
- 1960 - Birth of Brad Garrett; actor (Everybody Loves Raymond, Till Death).
- 1961 - Birth of John Clarke in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Michael - Days of Our Lives).
- 1968 - Birth of Anthony Michael Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Breakfast Club, Dead Zone).
- 1973 - Birth of Adrien Brody; (Annie McGuire, Saturday Night Live).
- 1977 - Birth of Sarah Michelle Gellar; actress (Kendall - All My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
- 1993 - Birth of Vivien Cardone; actress (Everwood).
- 1996 - Birth of Abigail Breslin; actress (Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer).
Deaths on April 14
- 1934 - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies.
- 1964 - Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at age 64.
- 1973 - Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in Seven Lessons), dies at age 88.
- 1975 - Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind, The Iceman Cometh, Death of a Salesman), dies from cancer at age 77.
- 1976 - Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie - Hazel), dies at age 60.
- 1980 - Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild - Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at age 84.
- 1990 - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies.
- 1995 - Death of Burl Ives at age 85 of mouth cancer in his home in Anacortes, Washington, USA; folk singer ("The Blue Tail Fly", "Little Bitty Tear", "Funny Way of Laughin'", "Holly, Jolly Christmas"), actor (The Big Country (Oscar award 1958), Big Daddy - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Alias Smith and Jones TV show).
- 1999 - Death of Anthony Newley at age 67 of cancer in his home in Florida, USA; British entertainer/songwriter/singer ("Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off", "What Kind of Fool Am I?", "The Candy Man", "Goldfinger").
- 2022 - Death of Rio Hackford at age 51 in Huntington Beach, California, USA; actor (The Mandalorian movie, American Crime Story).
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