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- For the Lebanese political coalition, see March 14 Alliance.
March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (74th in leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year.
[edit] Events
- 1489 - 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 - 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 Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
- 1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- 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.
- 1926 - Río Virilla, Costa Rica: the fall of a train in the Río Virilla killed 248 and injured 93 victims.
- 1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
- 1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 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.
- 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 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 certain guns deemed assault weapons 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.
- 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.
- 2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia, while the PSOE wins elections in Spain just days after terrorist attacks in Madrid.
- 2005 - Cedar Revolution, where one million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
- 2006 - The first two Combino Supras were delivered to Budapest.
- 2007 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits planning September 11 attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon.
- 2007 - In India, about 15 innocent farmers were killed when police open fired on protesters at Singur, Nandigram in West Bengal. The farmers were protesting against the forceful acquisition of agricultural land by the government for setting up factories in collaboration with Tata Motors.
[edit] Births
- 1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
- 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
- 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- 1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)
- 1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
- 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
- 1844 - King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
- 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- 1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
- 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
- 1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1961)
- 1863 - Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
- 1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1880 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
- 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- 1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- 1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
- 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
- 1888 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
- 1894 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
- 1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
- 1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
- 1903 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
- 1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl
- 1905 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
- 1914 - Bill Owen, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- 1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter
- 1918 - Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- 1922 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
- 1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
- 1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
- 1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr., American owner of the Detroit Lions
- 1928 - Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO
- 1931 - Phil Phillips, American singer and songwriter
- 1933 - Sir Michael Caine, English actor
- 1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
- 1933 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
- 1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
- 1936 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
- 1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American actor
- 1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
- 1939 - Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter
- 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director
- 1942 - Rita Tushingham, English actress
- 1943 - Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1945 - Jasper Carrott, English comedian
- 1945 - Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist, member of Chicago
- 1946 - Steve Kanaly, American actor
- 1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet
- 1948 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- 1950 - Rick Dees, American disc jockey
- 1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- 1956 - Jonathan Bowen, English computer scientist
- 1956 - Art Vandelay, Latex manufacturer
- 1957 - Andrew Robinson, British author
- 1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
- 1960 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
- 1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
- 1965 - Kevin Brown, baseball player
- 1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress
- 1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor
- 1965 - Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
- 1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
- 1968 - Megan Follows, Canadian actress
- 1969 - Larry Johnson, American basketball player
- 1970 - Meredith Salenger, American actress
- 1970 - Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
- 1974 - Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Johan Paulik (aka Daniel Ferenčík), Slovak porn star
- 1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1977 - Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
- 1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
- 1978 - Matt Kata, American baseball player
- 1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
- 1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
- 1979 - Love, Angolan footballer
- 1979 - Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
- 1980 - Aaron Brown, English footballer
- 1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
- 1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1980 - Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
- 1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
- 1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
- 1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
- 1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician, member of Hanson
- 1985 - Eva Angelina, American porn star
- 1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer
- 1986 - Jamie Bell, English actor
- 1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1994 - Frankie Ryan Manriquez, American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 752 - Pope Zachary
- 1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
- 1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- 1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
- 1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
- 1682 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
- 1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- 1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
- 1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
- 1757 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
- 1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
- 1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
- 1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
- 1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
- 1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
- 1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
- 1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1946 - Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
- 1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
- 1973 - Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
- 1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- 1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
- 1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- 1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
- 1983 - Maurice Ronet, French film actor (b. 1927)
- 1989 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (b. 1927)
- 1991 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1950)
- 1991 - Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
- 1991 - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
- 1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1997 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
- 2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
- 2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
- 2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
- 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
- 2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
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