On April 14, 1471, in the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Barnet was fought. In this battle, Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and killed the Earl of Warwick.
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April 14, 1775: The first abolitionist society in US was organized in Philadelphia.
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On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning. Also on April 14, 1865, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family were attacked in his home by Lewis Powell. This was part of the same conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln.
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On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language; based on the principle that word usage should evolve from the spoken language, the work was hugely influential, though it was initially attacked for its “Americanism.”
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Today’s feature article is a review written by SurvivalBlog staff writer Tom Christianson.
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