I note, in passing, on this day, in history … Mark Antony's forces defeated in the Battle of Forum Gallorum (mistakes were made); Mieszko I, the pagan ruler of the Polans, converts to Christianity (mistakes were made); …

https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/april-14

#calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

April 14 - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library

… a celestial phenomenon described as an aerial battle over Nuremberg; Benjamin Franklin co-organizes The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America; …
… the first meeting of William J Seymour's three-year-long Azusa Street Revival which begins the widespread launch of the existing Pentecostalism movement; …
… The Human Genome Project completes mapping 99% of the human genome sequence; The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples by Multnomah County; …

and Happy Cake and Cunnilingus Day to all those that celebrate it, and, shame on those who don't. Consider the Gnostic Mass and The Way to Succeed—and The Way to Suck Eggs!

https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib15
and
https://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib333#the-way-to-succeed-and-the-way-to-suck-eggs

Liber XV {Book 15} O. T. O. - Technical Libers of Thelema - The Libri of Aleister Crowley - Hermetic Library

And, the anniversary of the Lesser Feast of Averroes, Christiaan Huygens, Henry Corbin, John Gielgud, Dave Gibbons, Robert Carlyle (played Rumpelstiltskin), and Sarah Michelle Gellar, (played Buffy Summers in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series).
Also, the anniversary of the Greater Feast of L L Zamenhof (creator of Esperanto), John Singer Sargent, Rachel Carson, and Jonathan Frid (played Barnabas Collins in the Dark Shadows series and spinoffs).