What happened on March 14? There are more than 259 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 14
March 14 is the 74th day of the year 2024. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 11th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Jackson, Mississippi 39282 sunrise occured at 07:10 AM and sunset occured at 07:10 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Pisces. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 321 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 14
- 44 BCCasca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
- 313Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
- 1381Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 1489The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 1590Battle 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.
- 1647Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- 1757Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1780American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
- 1782Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
- 1794Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1885The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
- 1900The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 1903The 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.
- 1910Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- 1915World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- 1931Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
- 1939Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1942Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1943World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1945World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
- 1951Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- 1964A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1967The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1972Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
- 1972Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
- 1978The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
- 1979In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1980In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 1984Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- 1994Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 1995Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
- 2006Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
- 2007The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
- 2008A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
Who Were Born On March 14?
- 1638Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
- 1681Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
- 1790Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
- 1801Kristjan Jaak Peterson, first Estonian poet (d. 1822)
- 1804Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- 1807Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
- 1813Joseph Philo Bradley, American jurist and former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1892)
- 1822Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
- 1823Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
- 1833Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States (d. 1910)
- 1835Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
- 1837Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
- 1844Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, British poet
- 1844King Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
- 1851John Sebastian Little, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas and 21st Governor of Arkansas (d. 1916)
- 1853Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- 1854Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
- 1854John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
- 1854Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
- 1854Thomas R. Marshall, American politician, 27th Governor of Indiana, and 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
- 1862Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
- 1863Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
- 1866Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
- 1868Emily Murphy, Canadian women’s rights activist, first female magistrate in the British Empire (d. 1933)
- 1869Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
- 1879Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1880Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
- 1882Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- 1885Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- 1886Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
- 1887Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
- 1887Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
- 1888Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
- 1894Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
- 1898Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
- 1899Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (d. 1981)
- 1899K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
- 1903Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
- 1903Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
- 1904Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl (d. 2010)
- 1905Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1908Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft) (d. 1991)
- 1908Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (d. 1961)
- 1908Philip Conrad Vincent, British motorcycle pioneer (Vincent Black Shadow, Vincent Rapide and Vincent Black Lightning) (d. 1979)
- 1912Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
- 1912Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)
- 1912Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1912W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Southern Railway and later Amtrak President (d. 1994)
- 1912W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator (d. 2010)
- 1914Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
- 1914Lee Elhardt Hays, American folk singer (d. 1981)
- 1914Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1915Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- 1916Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1918Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1920Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- 1921S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
- 1922Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
- 1923Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
- 1925Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
- 1925William Clay Ford, Sr., American owner of the Detroit Lions
- 1928Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (d. 1980)
- 1928Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO
- 1931Phil Phillips, American singer and songwriter
- 1932Naina Yeltsina, former First Lady of Russian Federation
- 1933Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
- 1933René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1933Sir Michael Caine, British actor
- 1934Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
- 1934Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
- 1936Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
- 1939Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter
- 1939Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress
- 1939Raymond J. Barry, American actor
- 1939Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
- 1941Wolfgang Petersen, German director
- 1942Rita Tushingham, British actress
- 1943Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1944Bobby Smith, English professional footballer and manager
- 1944Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player
- 1945Herman van Veen, Dutch singer and theatre performer
- 1945Jasper Carrott, British comedian
- 1945Michael Martin Murphey, American country music singer
- 1945Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago)
- 1946Steve Kanaly, American actor
- 1946Wes Unseld, American basketball player
- 1947Jona Lewie, English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
- 1947Pam Ayres, British poet
- 1947Roy Budd, British jazz musician and composer (d.1993)
- 1947William J. Jefferson, American politician
- 1948Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- 1948Theo Jansen, Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor.
- 1948Tom Coburn, American politician, junior Senator from Oklahoma
- 1949Michael Stedman, British World War I historian and author
- 1950Rick Dees, American disc jockey
- 1951Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
- 1955Helen Atkinson-Wood, English actress and comedian
- 1956Butch Wynegar, American baseball player
- 1956Colin Ayre, British football player
- 1957Andrew Robinson, British author
- 1957Tad Williams, American author
- 1958Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1959Brian Whitfield, former South African cricketer
- 1959Tamara Tunie, American actress
- 1960Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1961Gary Dell'Abate, American radio producer
- 1961Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
- 1961Hiro Matsushita, Japanese racing driver
- 1961Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
- 1961Rey Washam, American musician (Scratch Acid)
- 1962Narumi Tsunoda, Japanese voice actress
- 1963Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
- 1964Dario Bisso, Italian conductor
- 1965Aamir Khan, Indian actor
- 1965James Kevin Brown, American baseball player
- 1965Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
- 1965Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
- 1966Elise Neal, American actress
- 1967Melissa Reeves, American actress
- 1968Megan Follows, Canadian actress
- 1969Des Coleman, English actor and presenter
- 1969Larry Johnson, American basketball player
- 1970Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
- 1970Meredith Salenger, American actress
- 1974Grace Park, Canadian actress
- 1974Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975Johan Paulik, Slovak porn star
- 1975Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
- 1975Stephen Harper, British/English footballer
- 1975Wendy Rice, American actress
- 1976Daniel Gillies, Canadian born New Zealand actor
- 1976Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1977Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
- 1977Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (d. 2011)
- 1977Zé António, Portuguese footballer
- 1978Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
- 1978Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
- 1979Anthony Carelli, Italian-American professional wrestler
- 1979Chris Klein, American actor
- 1979Love, Angolan footballer
- 1979Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
- 1979Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
- 1980Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
- 1980Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1980Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
- 1980Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
- 1981Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
- 1981George Wilson, American football player
- 1981Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
- 1982Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
- 1982François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
- 1982Kate Maberly, British actor, singer-songwriter
- 1983Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
- 1983Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
- 1984Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
- 1985Ariel Rebel, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1985Brianna Love, American pornographic actress
- 1985Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
- 1985Idaira, Spanish singer
- 1986Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
- 1986Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986Jamie Bell, British actor
- 1987Robert Clark, American Actor
- 1988Sasha Grey, American pornographic actress
- 1988Stephen Curry, American basketball player
- 1989Colby O'Donis, American musician
- 1990Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1991László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer
- 1992Jasmine Murray, American singer
Who Died On March 14?
- 313Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 284)
- 968Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (b. c. 895)
- 1457Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
- 1471Sir Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
- 1647Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- 1648Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
- 1680René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
- 1682Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
- 1696Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- 1698Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
- 1748George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
- 1757John Byng, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1704)
- 1765Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. c. 1703)
- 1791Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
- 1803Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
- 1805Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
- 1811Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
- 1823Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
- 1823John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
- 1883Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1884Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
- 1932George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1933Balto, Siberian Husky noted for his role in the 1925 serum run to Nome (b. 1919)
- 1946Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
- 1949John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1957Evagoras Pallikarides, Greek-Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
- 1973Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1973Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
- 1973Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
- 1975Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- 1976Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
- 1977Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- 1980Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (b. 1928)
- 1980Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
- 1983Maurice Ronet, French film actor (b. 1927)
- 1984Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
- 1989Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (b. 1927)
- 1989Happy Humphrey, American professional wrestler known for weighing in at 800+ pounds
- 1991Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
- 1991Howard Ashman, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1950)
- 1991Margery Sharp, children’s author (b. 1905)
- 1992Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 1995William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 1997Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
- 1999Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
- 2002Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
- 2003Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
- 2003Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
- 2006Ann Calvello, roller-derby queen (b. 1929)
- 2006Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia (b. 1929)
- 2007Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
- 2007Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
- 2008Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
- 2009Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1947)
- 2009Altovise Davis, American entertainer, Sammy Davis, Jr.'s widow (b. 1943)
- 2010Janet Simpson, British track and field athlete (b. 1944)
- 2010Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
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