1. In 1865, Confederate General Sterling Price surrendered his army to Union forces in Jacksonport, Arkansas, effectively ending the Civil War in the state.
2. On April 14, 1934, notorious outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were ambushed and killed by law enforcement officers near Sailes, Arkansas.
3. The Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students, were escorted to Central High School by the National Guard on April 14, 1959, marking a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
4. On this day in 1960, the Arkansas Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School.
5. April 14, 1993 marked the opening of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, which houses the official archives of the 42nd President of the United States.
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