March 14
is the
73rd day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (74th in
leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year.
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1489 - The Queen of
Cyprus,
Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to
Venice.
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1492 -
Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
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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.
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1647 -
Thirty Years' War:
Bavaria,
Cologne,
France and
Sweden sign the
Truce of Ulm.
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1757 - On-board the
HMS Monarch, Admiral
John Byng is executed by
firing squad for neglecting his duty.
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1794 -
Eli Whitney is granted a
patent for the
cotton gin.
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1800 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected
Pope Pius VII.
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1869 - Defeat of
Titokowaru.
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1900 - The
Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing
United States currency on the
gold standard.
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1903 - The
Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the
United States the right to build the
Panama Canal, is ratified by the
United States Senate. The Colombian 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.
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1905 -
Chelsea F.C founded at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook) opposite
Stamford Bridge.
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1910 -
Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
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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.
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1939 - German troops fully occupy the
Czechoslovak provinces of
Bohemia and
Moravia.
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1943 -
World War II - The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated.
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1950 -
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was formed.
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1951 -
Korean War: For the second time,
United Nations troops recapture
Seoul.
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1959 -
J.R.D.A.C.I. founded at a congress in
Treichville,
Côte d'Ivoire.
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1964 - A jury in
Dallas, Texas finds
Jack Ruby guilty of killing
John F. Kennedy assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald.
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1967 - The body of
President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at
Arlington National Cemetery.
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1978 - The
Israeli Defense Force, invades and occupies southern
Lebanon, in
Operation Litani*
1979 - In
China, a
Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near
Beijing, killing at least 200.
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1980 - In
Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near
Warsaw, killing a 14-man American
boxing team and 73 others.
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1984 -
Gerry Adams, head of
Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an
assassination attempt in central
Belfast.
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1989 -
Gun control: President
George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed
assault weapons into the
United States.
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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.
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1994 -
Timeline of Linux development:
Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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1995 -
Manned space mission: Astronaut
Norman Thagard becomes the first American
astronaut to ride to space on-board a
Russian launch vehicle.
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1997 - The
Chinese city of
Chongqing (formerly
Chunking) is upgraded to a
centrally administered municipality*
1998 - An
earthquake measuring 6.9 on the
Richter scale hits southeastern
Iran.
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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.
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2005 - The online statistics service
SOTKAnet is opened for the public in
Finland.
* 2005 - Mass Protest against
Syrian influence in
Lebanon takes place in
Beirut as part of the
Cedar Revolution.
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1638 -
Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d.
1710)
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1681 -
Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d.
1767)
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1804 -
Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d.
1849)
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1813 -
Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)
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1823 -
Théodore de Banville, French writer (d.
1891)
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1835 -
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d.
1910)
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1844 - King
Umberto I of Italy (d.
1900)
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1853 -
Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d.
1918)
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1854 -
Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1915)
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1862 -
Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d.
1961)
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1864 -
Casey Jones, railroad engineer (d.
1900)
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1869 -
Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d.
1951)
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1879 -
Albert Einstein, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1955)
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1882 -
Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d.
1969)
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1885 -
Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d.
1918)
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1886 -
Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d.
1964)
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1887 -
Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d.
1962)
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1898 -
Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d.
1985)
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1903 -
Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d.
1979)
* 1903 -
Adolph Gottlieb American abstract expressionist painter (d.
1974)
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1912 -
Les Brown, American band leader (d.
2001)
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1914 -
Bill Owen, British actor (d.
1999)
* 1914 -
Lee Petty, American race car driver (d.
2000)
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1915 -
Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d.
2005)
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1916 -
Horton Foote, American writer
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1920 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d.
2001)
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1922 -
Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d.
1996)
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1923 -
Diane Arbus, American photographer (d.
1971)
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1925 -
Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate
* 1925 -
William Clay Ford, Sr., Ford Motor Co. Director Emeritus, Detroit Lions Football Franchise Owner
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1928 -
Frank Borman, astronaut and airline executive
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1933 -
Michael Caine, British actor
* 1933 -
Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer
* 1933 -
René Felber, member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1993
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1934 -
Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
* 1934 -
Paul Rader, the 15th General of
The Salvation Army*
1938 -
Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (d.
1979)
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1941 -
Wolfgang Petersen, German director
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1945 -
Jasper Carrott, British comedian
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1946 -
Steve Kanaly, American actor
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1947 -
Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
* 1947 -
Pam Ayres, British poet
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1950 -
Rick Dees, American disc jockey
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1956 -
Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist
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1957 -
Andrew Robinson, British editor and author
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1958 -
Albert II, Prince of Monaco*
1960 -
Kirby Puckett, baseball player (d.
2006)
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1961 -
Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
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1963 -
Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
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1965 -
Aamir Khan, Indian actor
* 1965 -
Catherine Dent, American actress
* 1965 -
Kevin Brown, baseball player
* 1965 -
Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
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1969 -
Larry Johnson, former NBA basketball player
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1975 -
Johan Paulik (aka Daniel Ferenčík), Slovak pornographic actor
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1976 -
Merlin Santana, American actor (d.
2002)
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1977 -
Mervyn Colley, British kabbalist and ceremonial magician
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1978 -
Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
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1978 -
Matt Kata, Professional baseball player
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1979 -
Chris Klein, American actor
* 1979 -
Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
*1979 -
Love, Angolan footballer
*1979 -
Shawn Morrissey, Canadian author and naturalist;
Korean Mountaineering League founder
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1980 -
Aaron Brown, English footballer
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1981 -
Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
* 1981 -
Bobby Jenks, baseball player
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1983 -
Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
* 1983 -
Taylor Hanson, American musician (
Hanson)
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1985 -
Eva Angelina, Porn actress
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1986 -
Jamie Bell, British actor
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1986 -
Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
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752 -
Pope Zachary*
1457 -
Jingtai Emperor of China (b.
1428)
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1471 - Sir
Thomas Malory, English author (c.
1705)
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1647 -
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b.
1584)
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1648 -
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b.
1584)
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1680 -
René Le Bossu, French critic (b.
1631)
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1682 -
Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (c.
1628)
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1696 -
Jean Domat, French jurist (b.
1625)
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1698 -
Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b.
1622)
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1748 -
George Wade, British military leader (b.
1673)
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1757 -
John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b.
1704)
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1791 -
Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b.
1725)
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1803 -
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b.
1724)
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1805 -
Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b.
1753)
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1823 -
Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b.
1739)
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1883 -
Karl Marx, German political theorist (b.
1818)
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1884 -
Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b.
1827)
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1932 -
George Eastman, American inventor (b.
1854)
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1946 -
Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b.
1878)
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1973 -
Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b.
1907)
* 1973 -
Chic Young, American cartoonist (b.
1901)
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1975 -
Susan Hayward, American actress (b.
1917)
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1976 -
Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b.
1895)
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1977 -
Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b.
1917)
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1980 -
Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b.
1902)
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1986 -
Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b.
1958)
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1989 -
Edward Abbey, American author (b.
1927)
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1991 -
Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b.
1950)
* 1991 -
Doc Pomus, American composer (b.
1925)
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1995 -
William Alfred Fowler, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
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1997 -
Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b.
1907)
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2002 -
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b.
1930)
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2003 -
Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b.
1945)
* 2003 -
Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b.
1928)
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2006 -
Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b.
1929)
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Albania -
Summer Day:
Albanian holiday Summer is celebrated in this day in Elbasan and its surroundings.
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Japan and
Korea -
White Day:
Japanese holiday similar to
Valentine's Day (men give gifts to women).
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Pi Day - unofficial mathematics holiday.
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Roman Empire -
Equirria, horse races in honor of
Mars were held.
Liturgical feasts
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Saint Mathildis*
Saint Paulina*
Blessed Eve of Liege*
On this day in Canada*
NY Times: On this day*
BBC: On This Day*
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