March 14
March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years). There are 292 days remaining.
Events
- 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille ordered her 150 000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 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.
- 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.
- 1900 - 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: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden.
- 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.
- 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 is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
- 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.
- 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 - Chongqing is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality
- 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
- 2004 - 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.
Births
- 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (d. 1767)
- 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., composer (d. 1849)
- 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
- 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (d. 1918)
- 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 (d. 1915)
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (d. 1951)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (d. 1955)
- 1887 - Sylvia Beach, publisher (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party, (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001)
- 1916 - Horton Foote, writer
- 1918 - Dennis Patrick, actor
- 1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and former Eastern Airlines president
- 1933 - Michael Caine, actor
- 1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer
- 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot
- 1945 - Jasper Carrot (born Bob Davies), British comedian
- 1946 - Steve Kanaly, actor
- 1947 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
- 1958 - Prince Albert of Monaco
- 1961 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player
- 1963 - Bruce Reid, cricketer
- 1965 - Kevin Brown, baseball player
- 1983 - Taylor Hanson, Musician in the Group Hanson, Record producer
- 1986 - Jamie Bell, actor
Deaths
- 1883 - Karl Marx, political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1932 - George Eastman, inventor (b. 1854)
- 1973 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie) (b. 1901)
- 1973 - Howard H. Aiken, engineer (b. 1900)
- 1975 - Susan Hayward, actress (b. 1917)
- 1976 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director (b. 1895)
- 1991 - Doc Pomus, composer (b. 1925)
- 1991 - Howard Ashman, lyricist (b. 1950)
- 1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director (b. 1907)
- 2002 - Cherry Wilder, author (b. 1930)
- 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, publisher (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
March 13 - March 15 - February 14 - April 14 -- listing of all days
