Daily Almanac: April 14, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:06 a.m.
SET: 8:22 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 78 °F
LOW: 55 °F

Today is…

• Day of Silence
• Ex-Spouse Day
• National Dive Bar Day

What Happened On This Day:

•1988 The Soviet Union agrees to withdraw from Afghanistan. Soviet troops had invaded the country in 1979 to support the communist rulers. They were defeated primarily by the Mujahideen, who were groups of militant Islamists sponsored by the CIA.
• 1912 Doomed passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The subsequent sinking of the world’s largest ocean liner of the time resulted in more than 1500 deaths. It was one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history.
• 1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, wanted to revive the Confederate cause, mere days after their surrender to the Union Army, bringing the American Civil War to an end. Lincoln died the next day.

Births On This Day:

• 1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress, producer
• 1904 John Gielgud

English actor, director, producer

Deaths On This Day:

• 1964 Rachel Carson

American biologist, author

• 1925 John Singer Sargent

American painter