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 [1] 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.