March 14

is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in leap years) 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.
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.
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.
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.
1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
1943 - World War II - The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated.
1950 - FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was formed.
1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations 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 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 - 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 Syrian 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
1969 - Larry Johnson, former NBA basketball player
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
1978 - Matt Kata, Professional baseball player
1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
1979 - Love, Angolan footballer
1980 - Aaron Brown, English footballer
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1981 - Bobby Jenks, baseball player
1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1985 - Eva Angelina, Porn actress
1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor
1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer

Deaths

752 - Pope Zachary
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)
1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
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)
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
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)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
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

Albania - Summer Day: Albanian holiday Summer is celebrated in this day in Elbasan and its surroundings.
Japan - White Day: Japanese holiday similar to Valentine's Day (men give gifts to women).
Pi Day - unofficial mathematics holiday.
Roman Empire - Equirria, horse races in honor of Mars were held.

Liturgical feasts

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