March 14

March 14 is the 73th 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.
• 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.
• 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[?].
• 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 Strauß, 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
• 1912 - Les Brown, band leader
• 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
• 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

Holidays and observances

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

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