April 14
- 43 BCEGraeco-Roman
At the Battle of Forum Gallorum, armies of the Roman Senate clashed with Mark Antony's forces in the war that followed Julius Caesar's death.
- 1872 CEIslamic · born
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, whose extensively annotated English translation of the Qur'an became one of the most widely read, was born on this day in 1872.
- 1891 CEBuddhist · born
B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian jurist and social reformer who later led a mass movement embracing Buddhism, was born at Mhow.
- 1950 CEHindu · died
The sage Ramana Maharshi, known for the practice of self-enquiry ('Who am I?'), died at his ashram at the foot of Arunachala in Tiruvannamalai.
- 1935 CEScience · died
Emmy Noether, whose theorem linking symmetries to conservation laws reshaped theoretical physics and who made deep contributions to abstract algebra, died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1935.
Trace this life → - 2003 CEScience
An international consortium announced completion of the Human Genome Project, a reference sequence covering nearly all human DNA, finished more than two years ahead of its original schedule.