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March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap Year s) with 292 days remaining in the year.
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.
- and the Huguenot s defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc De Mayenne during the French Wars Of Religion .
- , 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia .
- 1943 - World War II - The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated.
- troops recapture Seoul .
- 1959 - J.R.D.A.C.I. founded at a congress in Treichville , Côte D'Ivoire .
- 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 , 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 a 14-man American Boxing team and 73 others.
- 1984 - Gerry Adams , head of Sinn Féin , is seriously wounded in an Assassin ation attempt in central Belfast .
- bans the importation of certain guns deemed Assault Weapon s into the United States .
- 1991 - After 16 years in Prison for allegedly Bomb ing a Pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the " Birmingham Six " are freed when a court determines that the Police fabricated Evidence .
- version 1.0.0 is released.
- becomes the first American Astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russia n 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 - 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 .
- 2005 - Mass Protest against Syria n influence in Lebanon takes place in Beirut as part of the Cedar Revolution .
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 - Paul Ehrlich , German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1915 )
- 1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes , Norwegian physicist (d. 1961 )
- 1864 - Casey Jones , railroad engineer (d. 1900 )
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood , British writer (d. 1951 )
- 1879 - Albert Einstein , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
- 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski , Polish mathematician (d. 1969 )
- 1885 - Raoul Lufbery , American World War I pilot (d. 1918 )
- 1887 - Sylvia Beach , American publisher (d. 1962 )
- 1903 - Mustafa Barzani , Kurdish politician (d. 1979 )
- 1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1974 )
- 1912 - Les Brown , American band leader (d. 2001 )
- 1914 - Bill Owen , British 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 writer
- 1920 - Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
- 1923 - Diane Arbus , American photographer (d. 1971 )
- 1925 - Francis A. Marzen , American Catholic prelate
- 1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr. , Ford Motor Co. Director Emeritus, Detroit Lions Football Franchise Owner
- 1928 - Frank Borman , astronaut and airline executive
- 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
- 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 )
- 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen , German director
- 1945 - Jasper Carrott , British comedian
- 1946 - Steve Kanaly , American actor
- 1947 - Billy Crystal , American actor and comedian
- 1947 - Pam Ayres , British poet
- 1950 - Rick Dees , American disc jockey
- 1956 - Jonathan Bowen , British computer scientist
- 1957 - Andrew Robinson , British editor and author
- 1958 - Albert II, Prince Of Monaco
- 1960 - Kirby Puckett , baseball player (d. 2006 )
- 1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald , American actress
- 1963 - Bruce Reid , Australian cricketer
- 1965 - Aamir Khan , Indian actor
- 1965 - Catherine Dent , American actress
- 1965 - Kevin Brown , baseball player
- 1965 - Kevin Williamson , American screenwriter
- 1975 - Johan Paulik (aka Daniel Ferenčík), Slovak pornographic actor
- 1976 - Merlin Santana , American actor (d. 2002 )
- 1977 - Mervyn Colley , British kabbalist and ceremonial magician
- 1978 - Pieter Van Den Hoogenband , Dutch swimmer
- 1979 - Chris Klein , American actor
- 1981 - Mei-Ting Sun , Chinese-born pianist
- 1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev , Kazakh boxer
- 1983 - Taylor Hanson , American musician ( Hanson )
- 1986 - Jamie Bell , British actor
Deaths
- 752 - Pope Zacharias
- 1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428 )
- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory , English author
- 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
- 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 )
- 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 (b. 1854 )
- 1973 - Rafael Godoy , Colombian composer (b. 1907 )
- 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 )
- 1989 - Edward Abbey , American author (b. 1927 )
- 1991 - Howard Ashman , American lyricist (b. 1950 )
- 1991 - Doc Pomus , American composer (b. 1925 )
- 1995 - William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- 1997 - Fred Zinnemann , Austrian-born director (b. 1907 )
- 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 )
Holidays and observances
External links
March 13 - March 15 - February 14 - April 14 -- Listing Of All Days
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