On this day - April 14
FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE: On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how a Newport golf course which was closed for four months due to flooding re-opened.
Five years ago today we reported how Newport County players were to be honoured after being promoted to the Blue Square Premier League.
The stories from history on this day - April 14
1471: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, in the War of the Roses.
1759: George Frideric Handel, German composer, died in London, where most of his music-making had been done.
1828: Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1865: Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th president, was shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, dying the next day.
1894: Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated his ''kinetoscope'' moving picture machine in New York.
1917: Dr Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof, Polish physician who invented the international language Esperanto, died.
1929: The Monaco Grand Prix was first run - 78 laps round the narrow streets and harbour of Monte Carlo.
1931: The Ministry of Transport issued the first Highway Code.
1983: The first cordless telephone, capable of operating up to 600ft from base, was introduced.
2003: The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A same-sex couple married in what was believed to be the UK's first gay wedding held in a church.
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