Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 14:
1931 – Spain was declared a republic after King Alfonso abdicated and fled the country.
1951 – Ernest Bevin, British foreign minister from 1945 to 1951 and minister of labour during World War Two, died.
1995 – Female panda Yan Yan from Beijing arrives at Berlin zoo on five-year loan.
1999 – NATO missiles struck a convoy of Albanian refugees in Kosovo. Yugoslavia said 70 people were killed.
2000 – Russia’s Duma (lower house of parliament) ratified the START-2 nuclear arms reduction treaty. The upper house followed suit on April 19.
2002 – Hugo Chavez returned in triumph to his presidential palace two days after resigning when the interim government set up after an attempted military coup collapsed.
2003 – American special forces captured veteran Palestinian guerrilla leader Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, in a raid near southern Baghdad.
2007 – Canadian journalist, author and human rights activist June Callwood, often described as Canada’s social conscience, died aged 82.
2009 – Former member of the Beatles George Harrison is honoured posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2013 – Gun battle, bombs kill at least 16 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2016 – Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Bhutan.
(Reuters)