14 March

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, (d. 1767)
• 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., composer, (d. 1849)
• 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter, (d. 1918)
• 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908, (d. 1915)
• 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, writer, (d. 1951)
• 1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921, (d. 1955)
• 1887 - Sylvia Beach, publisher, (d. 1962)
• 1912 - Les Brown, band leader, (d. 2001)
• 1916 - Horton Foote, writer
• 1918 - Dennis Patrick, actor
• 1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), (d. 2001)
• 1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and former Eastern Airlines president
• 1933 - Michael Caine, actor
• 1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer
• 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot
• 1946 - Steve Kanaly, actor
• 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, (b. 1818)
• 1932 - George Eastman, inventor, (b. 1854)
• 1973 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
• 1975 - Susan Hayward, actress, (b. 1917)
• 1976 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director, (b. 1895)
• 1991 - Doc Pomus, composer, (b. 1925)
• 1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director, (b. 1907)
• 2002 - Cherry Wilder, author, (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, publisher, (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

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

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