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This day in history: 14 March

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Key facts

299 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2021: Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Leobinus

Christian feast day: March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Matilda of Ringelheim

Constitution Day (Andorra)

Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)

Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism)

Steak and Blowjob Day, a satirical unofficial holiday created in the United States as a male response to Valentine's Day

Summer Day (Albania)

White Day on which men give gifts to women; complementary to Valentine's Day (Japan and other Asian nations)

Events

2021Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

2019Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.

2017A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.

2008A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.

2007The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.

2006Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat.

2006The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.

1995Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

1991Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert – which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine – is officially inaugurated.

1988In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.

1982The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.

1980LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.

1979Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.

1978The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.

1972Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.

1967The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1964Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.

1961A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.

1951Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.

1945The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.

1943The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.

1942Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.

1939Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.

1931Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.

1926The 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.

1923Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces.

1921Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.

1920In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.

1916Battle of Verdun: German attack captures Côte 265 at the west end of Mort-Homme but the French 75th Infantry Brigade manages to hold Côte 295 at the east end.

1903Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.

1901Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restrictions on polygamy.

1900The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.

1885The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.

1864Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris.

1794Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1780American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.

1757Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

1674The 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.

1663According 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.

1647Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

Born on this day

2008Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress

2001Nico Mannion, Italian-American basketball player

2000Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality

2000Jihoon, South Korean singer

1999Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player

1999Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter

1998Tyson Jost, Canadian ice hockey player

1997Simone Biles, American gymnast

1996Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer

1995Brandon Aubrey, American multi-sport athlete

1995Nick Eh 30, Canadian live streamer and professional gamer

1994Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ

1993Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball player

1993J. T. Miller, American ice hockey player

1992Erik Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player

1992Shotzi Blackheart, American wrestler

1991Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler

1990Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress

1990Joe Allen, Welsh footballer

1990Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer

1990Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer

1989Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver

1989Marwin González, Venezuelan baseball player

1989Patrick Patterson, American basketball player

1988Rico Freimuth, German decathlete

1988Stephen Curry, American basketball player

1986Andy Taylor, English footballer

1986Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer

1986Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist

1983Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

1982Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer

1982François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (died 2008)

1981Bobby Jenks, American baseball player (died 2025)

1981George Wilson, American football player

1980Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach

1980Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player and coach

1979Chris Klein, American actor

1979Dan Avidan, American musician and internet personality

1979Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager

1979Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer

Died on this day

2025Alan Simpson, United States senator from Wyoming (born 1931)

2022Scott Hall, American wrestler (born 1958)

2019Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (born 1952)

2019Haig Young, Canadian politician (born 1928)

2019Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (born 1962)

2018Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (born 1937)

2018Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (born 1945)

2018Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (born 1979)

2018Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942)

2016John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (born 1928)

2016Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (born 1934)

2016Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1949)

2014Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (born 1934)

2014Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1925)

2013Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936)

2013Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925)

2013Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930)

2012Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (born 1913)

2012Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (born 1928)

2010Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926)

2008Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (born 1920)

2007Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (born 1912)

2006Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (born 1929)

2003Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (born 1945)

2003Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (born 1928)

1999John Broome, American author (born 1913)

1999Kirk Alyn, American actor (born 1910)

1997Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907)

1995William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

1994Sheila Humphreys, Irish Republican, political activist and Hunger Striker (born 1899)

Quote of the day

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca

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