Important Events From This day in History – 14 April

Today in History

• 2003 The Human Genome Project is completed

  In October 1990, the project to map the genes of the human genome was launched.

• 1988 The Soviet Union agrees to withdraw from Afghanistan

  In 1979, Soviet troops invaded the country to support the communist rulers. They were primarily defeated by the Mujahideen, CIA-sponsored militant Islamist groups.

• 1986 The heaviest hailstones ever recorded hit Bangladesh

  The lumps of ice weighed about 1 kg (2.2 lb). At total of 92 people reportedly died as a result.

• 1912 Doomed passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic

  More than 1500 people died as a result of the subsequent sinking of the world’s largest ocean liner at the time. It was one of the worst maritime disasters in peacetime history.

• 1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot

  The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, wanted to resurrect the Confederate cause just days after the Confederacy surrendered to the Union Army, effectively ending the American Civil War. The next day, Lincoln died.