Notable Historical Events on March 14th
March 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1489 |
The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. |
1559 |
Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands |
1590 |
Battle of Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion |
1644 |
England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) |
1647 |
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. |
1653 |
Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno |
1689 |
Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen |
1743 |
1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) |
1757 |
On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty "Pour encourager les autres". |
1794 |
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in the southern US states |
1800 |
Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII |
1812 |
Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 |
1821 |
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) |
1826 |
General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia |
1840 |
Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid |
1843 |
Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) |
1845 |
-5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen |
1862 |
Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern |
1864 |
Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris |
1864 |
Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana |
1869 |
Defeat of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand. |
1870 |
California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible |
1875 |
Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres |
1885 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London |
1888 |
2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21") |
1889 |
August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen |
1889 |
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon" |
1896 |
Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) |
1899 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2 |
1900 |
Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics |
1900 |
US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act |
1901 |
1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A |
1901 |
Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with England in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria |
1903 |
1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL |
1903 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games |
1903 |
WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin |
1904 |
In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the Supreme Court finds that the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; this is the first case that T. Roosevelt has undertaken in his 'trust-busting' campaign |
1906 |
Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms |
1907 |
By Presidential order, the US excludes Japanese laborers from entering the country |
1908 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 |
1909 |
Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
1910 |
Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere. |
1912 |
King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt |
1913 |
John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation |
1913 |
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Moslem and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid |
1914 |
Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty |
1915 |
German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal. |
1916 |
Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun |
1918 |
1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF |
1922 |
KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland |
1923 |
German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) |
1923 |
Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes |
1926 |
A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93. |
1931 |
1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC) |
1933 |
Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation |
1935 |
36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
1936 |
Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue |
1937 |
Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio |
1937 |
Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge |
1939 |
England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day |
1939 |
Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia |
1940 |
27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas |
1941 |
Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies |
1941 |
Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu" |
1943 |
World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'. |
1945 |
RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm |
1946 |
Belgian government of Spaak forms |
1948 |
Freedom Train arrives in SF |
1950 |
FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins |
1951 |
During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul |
1951 |
Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany |
1953 |
KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game |
1954 |
KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins |
1954 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1954 |
NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak |
1955 |
Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal |
1956 |
Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) |
1957 |
Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns |
1958 |
RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) |
1958 |
Recording Industry Association of American created |
1958 |
South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1960 |
14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif |
1960 |
Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points |
1961 |
George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets |
1962 |
Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France |
1962 |
Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals |
1963 |
SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists |
1964 |
"Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs |
1964 |
Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder |
1965 |
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany |
1967 |
1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith |
1967 |
JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
1968 |
CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA |
1969 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct |
1969 |
Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ |
1971 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV |
1971 |
South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
1971 |
The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes |
1972 |
NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC |
1972 |
Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry |
1973 |
Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland |
1976 |
Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) |
1978 |
NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) |
1979 |
A Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, China, killing at least 200. |
1980 |
3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1980 |
Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay |
1980 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR) |
1980 |
Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) |
1980 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch |
1982 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
1982 |
Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century |
1983 |
OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
1984 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission |
1984 |
Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. |
1985 |
Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
1986 |
European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) |
1987 |
Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87 |
1987 |
Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m |
1987 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt |
1987 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl |
1987 |
13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV) |
1990 |
4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win |
1990 |
Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress |
1991 |
Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave |
1991 |
Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA) |
1991 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev |
1991 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
1991 |
English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment |
1992 |
Farm Aid V |
1992 |
NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape |
1992 |
Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication |
1993 |
"Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs |
1993 |
"Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances |
1993 |
"Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1993 |
3,000th performance of "Nunsense" |
1993 |
Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57) |
1993 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
1993 |
Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days |
1993 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR) |
1994 |
Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped |
1994 |
Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard |
1994 |
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. |
1995 |
1st time 13 people in space |
1996 |
Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi |
1996 |
Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) |
1997 |
68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch |
1997 |
Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 |
1997 |
Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award |
1997 |
President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery |
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. |
2003 |
Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions |
2005 |
Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. |
2013 |
25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico |
2013 |
Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China |
2016 |
Maryland Shooting Outside Police Station Leaves One Officer Dead |
2016 |
Online Leak of NCAA Tournament Bracket Upstages CBS Selection Show |
2016 |
OPEC sees lower 2016 demand for its oil, pointing to higher surplus |
2016 |
European-Russian spacecraft heads out in search for life on Mars |
2016 |
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant PKK camps in northern Iraq: army |
2016 |
Chicago-bound Amtrak train derails in Kansas, 30 injured |
2016 |
Migrant crisis: Hundreds seek new route into Macedonia |
2016 |
Rafael Nadal: 14-time Grand slam champion to sue over doping claims |
2016 |
Yemen conflict: UAE jet missing on mission against Houthis |
2017 |
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author and Filmmaker, Dies at 51 |
2018 |
Student walkouts planned across US to protest gun violence |
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