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1293 - ★Chinzei Tandai is established in the northern part of Kyush, Japan. (timeline)
It is a military post which is particularly established for preparing for another Mongol invasion.
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1865 - ◆President Abraham Lincoln is shot. He dies the next day (on April 15).
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1912 - ◆Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm.
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks the following morning (on April 15) with the loss of 1,517 lives.
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1981 - ▲(birth) Shinjiro Koizumi, a Japanese politician.
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1984 - ★(birth) Harumafuji Kohei, a Mongolian sumo wrestler.
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1995 - ▲Shintaro Ishihara suddenly resigns from the Diet.
The day is genpuku 14th birthday of Shinjiro Koizumi (April 14, 1981). They are distant relatives. And Ishihara is older, more popular and more experienced than Koizumi. Ishihara becomes the Tokyo governor in 1999. Koizumi's father becomes prime minister in 2001. However, the event above critically indicates that Shinjiro Koizumi is of nobler ancestry than Ishihara, probably thanks to his mother.
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1999 - ▲A minor strangles a mother and her baby in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
A 17-year-old boy, Takayuki Fukuda, strangles a mother and her baby.
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1999 - ▲NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Dakovica.
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1999 - ▲Sydney hailstorm.
A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
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2001 - ▲The Japanese Red Army declares its disbandment.
Its leader Fusako Shigenobu issues a statement from detention declaring the Japanese Red Army is disbanding.
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The Japanese Red Army was obviously a group of the government's agents. And it is obvious that Shigenobu celebrates Shinjiro Koizumi's 20th birthday (April 14, 1981).
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2010 - ◆Yushu earthquake. Nearly 2,700 are killed (Yushu, Qinghai, China).
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2010 - ◆Eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull.
Although relatively small for volcanic eruptions, the eruptions cause enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days.
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