On this day in history - April 14

What Happened On This Day – April 14

• 2003 The Human Genome Project is completed

  The project dedicated to mapping the genes of the human genome was started in October 1990.

• 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.

• 1986 The heaviest hailstones ever recorded hit Bangladesh

  The lumps of ice weighed about 1 kg (2.2 lb). At total of 92 people reportedly died as a result.

• 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.