March 14
March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. Events0000-18991489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion. 1647 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. 1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty. 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1800 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.1900-19991900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. 1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Columbian Senate would later reject the treaty.1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues an executive order making Pelican Island, in Florida, a “preserve and breeding ground for native birds,” marking the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System. 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.1923 - Pete Parker does the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.1978 - The Israeli Defense Force, in retaliation for a terrorist attack three days earlier, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, under codename Operation Litani, resulting in the evacuation of at least 100,000 Lebanese, approximately 2,000 deaths, as well as the creation of United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon (UNIFIL). 1979 - In China, a Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200. 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others. 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.1989 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of assault rifles into the United States. 1991 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence. 1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. 1996 - American President Bill Clinton commits $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists.1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.2000-20992004 - Pope John Paul II becomes the second-longest serving pope in history.2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia, while the PSOE wins elections in Spain just days after terrorist attacks in Madrid.2005 - The online statistics service SOTKAnet is opened for the public in Finland.
Births0000-18991681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr, Austrian composer (d. 1849) 1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1892)1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1915)1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (d. 1955)1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I flying ace (d. 1918)1887 - Sylvia Beach, American expatriate publisher (d. 1962)1900-19991903 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party, (d. 1979)1912 - Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001)1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)1914 - Lee Petty, American stock car driver (d. 2000)1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)1916 - Horton Foote, American writer1918 - Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001)1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and former Eastern Airlines president 1933 - Michael Caine, British actor1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer1934 - Eugene Cernan, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, last human to leave his footprints on the moon1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director, Das Boot1943 - Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)1945 - Jasper Carrott (born Bob Davies), British comedian1946 - Steve Kanaly, actor1947 - Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet1950 - Rick Dees, American disk jockey1958 - Albert II of Monaco1961 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer1965 - Aamir Khan, Bollywood actor1965 - Kevin Brown, American baseball player1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)1979 - Chris Klein, American actor1979 - Trip Ross (American Director), head of Empty Noggin Entertainment1983 - Taylor Hanson, musician in the group Hanson, record producer1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor2000-2099
Deaths0000-1899752 - Pope Zacharias1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author1757 - John Byng, admiral1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)1900-19991932 - George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907) 1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901) 1973 - Howard H. Aiken, engineer (b. 1900)1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)1976 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director (b. 1895)1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)1989 - Edward Abbey, American author1991 - Doc Pomus, composer (b. 1925) 1991 - Howard Ashman, lyricist (b. 1950)1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director (b. 1907)2000-20992002 - Cherry Wilder, author (b. 1930)2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher2003 - Jack Goldstein, artist (b. 1945)2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
March 13 - March 15 - February 14 - April 14 -- listing of all days
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