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.
   * 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 (+ 1767)
   * 1804 - Johann Strau§, 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.