What happened on 14 April?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 2003 Human Genome Project completed International collaboration completes the first draft sequence of the human genome.
2. 1865 Lincoln's assassination Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
3. 1891 Born: B. R. Ambedkar Dalit jurist and economist; principal architect of India's constitution.
4. 1939 Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Dust-Bowl odyssey of the Joad family; defining novel of the Great Depression.
5. 1900 1900 Exposition Universelle Paris world's fair showcasing fin-de-siècle modernity.
6. 1931 Second Spanish Republic proclaimed Alfonso XIII departs and a reformist republic is declared — the regime the Civil War would destroy.
7. 1952 Ellison's Invisible Man Landmark novel of African-American identity in mid-20th-century America; won the 1953 National Book Award.
8. 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping Boko Haram abducts 276 girls in Nigeria, prompting the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
9. 1471 Battle of Barnet Edward IV defeats and kills Warwick the Kingmaker; eliminates the most dangerous noble in England.