March 14

March 14 is the 73th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years). There are 292 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

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 Treaty of Neutrality.
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.
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 Trident aircraft 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.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.

Births

1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (+ 1767)
1804 - Johann Strau�, Sr, composer (+ 1849)
1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (+ 1918)
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 (+ 1915)
1869 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951)
1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (+ 1955)
1887 - Sylvia Beach, publisher (+ 1962)
1912 - Les Brown, band leader (+ 2001)
1916 - Horton Foote, writer
1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (+ 2001)
1933 - Michael Caine, actor
1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer
1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot
1947 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
1958 - Prince Albert of Monaco
1961 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player
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
1932 - George Eastman, inventor
1973 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
1975 - Susan Hayward, actress
1976 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director
1991 - Doc Pomus, composer
1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director
2003 - Jean-Luc Lagard�re, publisher

Holidays and observances

Pi Day - unofficial holiday
Roman Empire - Equirria, horses races in honor of Mars were held.

See Also:

March 13 - March 15 - February 14 - April 14 -- listing of all days

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