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What happened in history on March 14th?
Year | Name |
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2019 | Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. |
2017 | A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.[34] |
2008 | A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. |
2007 | The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. |
2006 | The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. |
1995 | Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
1988 | In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. |
1982 | The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. |
1980 | LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. |
1979 | Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. |
1978 | The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. |
1972 | Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. |
1967 | The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. |
1964 | Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. |
1961 | A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons. |
1951 | Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. |
1945 | The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. |
1943 | The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. |
1942 | Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. |
1939 | Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. |
1931 | Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released. |
1926 | The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. |
1920 | In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany. |
1903 | Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt. |
1901 | Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy. |
1900 | The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. |
1885 | The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London. |
1794 | Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. |
1780 | American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans. |
1757 | Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. |
1674 | The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers. |
1663 | According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion. |
1647 | Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. |
1590 | Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion. |
1074 | Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. |
Here is a random list who born on March 14. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1933 | Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer |
1968 | Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress |
1990 | Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer |
1835 | Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910) |
1966 | Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter |
1800 | James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874) |
1977 | Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player |
1837 | Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903) |
1939 | Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter |
1959 | Tamara Tunie, American actress |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 14. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1860 | Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802) |
2010 | Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926) |
1883 | Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818) |
1973 | Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900) |
2016 | John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928) |
1995 | William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
2014 | Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
1791 | Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (b. 1725) |
2012 | Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
1823 | Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1739) |