March 14

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Day of the week 2017 Tuesday Holidays & Observances Pi Day, White Day		Western zodiac Pisces
Events WrestleMania XX, Spanish general election, 2004 Famous birthdays Albert Einstein, Stephen Curry, Aamir Khan, Simone Biles, Brooklyn Chase

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

March 14 personality famous birthdays

Events

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.

313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).

1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.

1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.

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.

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

1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.

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

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

1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.

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

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

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

1903 – The Hay–Herrán 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.

1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.

1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.

1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. Two hundred forty-eight are killed and 93 wounded.

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

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.

1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".

1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.

1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

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

1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.

1978 – The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.

1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.

1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.

1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.

1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.

2007 – The 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.

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

Births

1415 – Wilhelm II, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1444)

1418 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1492)

1473 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1512)

1638 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)

1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (d. 1767)

1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)

1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874)

1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)

1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1849)

1807 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)

1813 – Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1892)

1820 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)

1822 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889)

1823 – Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (d. 1891)

1833 – Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (d. 1911)

1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (d. 1910)

1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)

1836 - Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (d. 1865)

1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)

1844 – Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)

1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881)

1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)

1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915)

1854 – John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (d. 1925)

1854 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (d. 1920)

1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)

1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)

1863 – Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)

1866 – Alexey Troitsky, Russian composer and author (d. 1942)

1868 – Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (d. 1933)

1869 – Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (d. 1951)

1874 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (d. 1951)

1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1880 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (d. 1945)

1882 – Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)

1885 – Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (d. 1918)

1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)

1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)

1887 – Charles Reisner, American actor and director (d. 1962)

1894 – Osa Johnson, American director and explorer (d. 1953)

1898 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (d. 1985)

1898 – Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (d. 1954)

1899 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)

1901 – Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (d. 1977)

1903 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (d. 1974)

1904 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010)

1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)

1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (d. 1972)

1906 – Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (d. 1984)

1908 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (d. 1991)

1908 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (d. 1961)

1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (d. 1979)

1911 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (d. 2005)

1912 – Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)

1912 – Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2001)

1912 – W. Graham Claytor, Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)

1912 – W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)

1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers and Almanac Singers) (d. 1981)

1914 – Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (d. 1999)

1914 – Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (d. 2000)

1915 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)

1916 – Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1917 – Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)

1918 – John McCallum, Australian actor and producer (d. 2010)

1918 – Dennis Patrick, American actor and director (d. 2002)

1919 – Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988)

1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)

1920 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (d. 2014)

1921 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)

1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)

1922 – Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1922 – China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director, and producer (d. 2014)

1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)

1925 – William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman (d. 2014)

1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)

1926 – François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator

1926 – Phil Phillips, American singer-songwriter

1928 – Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

1928 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)

1929 – Bob Goalby, American golfer

1932 – Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)

1932 – Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia

1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and author

1933 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer

1934 – Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)

1934 – Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army

1936 – Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer

1937 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2013)

1938 – Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter

1938 – Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (d. 2016)

1938 – John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (d. 2016)

1939 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress

1939 – Raymond J. Barry, American actor

1939 – Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter

1939 – Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter

1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter

1942 – Rita Tushingham, English actress

1943 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (d. 1994)

1944 – Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor

1944 – Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager

1944 – Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager

1944 – Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (d. 2012)

1945 – Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and game show host

1945 – Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1945 – Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist

1946 – William Lerach, American securities, class action attorney

1946 – Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager

1947 – Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (d. 1993)

1947 – William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician

1947 – Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1947 – Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2017)

1948 – Tom Coburn, American physician and politician

1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1948 – Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor

1950 – Rick Dees, American actor and radio host

1951 – Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's

1953 – Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2013)

1954 – Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach

1955 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1956 – Sean Mathias, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter

1956 – Tessa Sanderson, Jamaican-English javelin thrower and heptathlete

1956 – Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach

1957 – Jean van de Velde, Dutch director and screenwriter

1957 – Tad Williams, American author

1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

1958 – Francine Stock, English journalist and author

1959 – Steve Byrnes, American sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)

1959 – Laila Robins, American actress

1959 – Tamara Tunie, American actress

1960 – Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic

1960 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)

1961 – Gary Dell'Abate, American actor and producer

1961 – Garry Jack, Australian rugby league player and coach

1961 – Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress

1961 – Mike Lazaridis, Turkish–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited

1961 – Hiro Matsushita, Japanese race car driver

1963 – Andrew Fleming, American director and screenwriter

1963 – Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach

1964 – Dario Bisso Sabàdin, Italian conductor and composer

1965 – Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach

1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director

1965 – Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1965 – Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1966 – Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter

1966 – Elise Neal, American actress and producer

1966 – Gary Anthony Williams, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1968 – Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress

1968 – James Frain, English actor

1968 – Serena Rees, English businesswoman, co-founded Agent Provocateur

1969 – Michael Bland, American drummer and producer

1969 – Des Coleman, English actor

1969 – Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor

1970 – Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971 – Charlie Elphicke, English lawyer and politician

1972 – Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist

1974 – Ben Kennedy, Australian rugby player

1974 – Rohit Shetty, Indian actor, director, and cinematographer

1974 – Santino Marella, Canadian-American wrestler and actor

1974 – Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player

1975 – Rushanara Ali, Bangladeshi-English politician

1975 – Steve Harper, English footballer and referee

1975 – Dmitri Markov, Belorussian-Australian pole vaulter

1976 – Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor, director, and screenwriter

1976 – Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster

1977 – Zé António, Portuguese footballer

1977 – Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach

1977 – Aki Hoshino, Japanese model and author

1977 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)

1977 – Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player

1978 – Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer

1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager

1979 – Chris Klein, American actor

1979 – Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer

1979 – Yoko Shibui, Japanese runner

1979 – Dan Avidan, American musician and internet personality

1980 – Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach

1980 – Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player

1981 – Bobby Jenks, American baseball player

1981 – George Wilson, American football player

1982 – Carlos Marinelli, Argentinian footballer

1982 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)

1983 – Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

1983 – Taylor Hanson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

1983 – Anas Sarwar, Scottish dentist and politician

1984 – Aric Almirola, American race car driver

1984 – Liesel Pritzker Simmons, American actress and philanthropist

1986 – Jamie Bell, English actor and dancer

1986 – Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer

1986 – Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist

1986 – Andy Taylor, English footballer

1987 – Robert Clark, American actor

1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player

1988 – Rico Freimuth, German decathlete

1988 – Sasha Grey, American porn actress and singer

1989 – Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver

1989 – Colby O'Donis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1990 – Joe Allen, Welsh footballer

1990 – Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer

1990 – Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress

1990 – Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer

1991 – Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler

1991 – Pat O'Hanlon, Australian rugby league player

1991 – László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer

1991 – Steven Zellner, German footballer

1993 – Philipp Ziereis, German footballer

1994 – Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ

1996 – Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer

1997 – Simone Biles, American gymnast

Deaths

313 – Emperor Huai of Jin (b. 284)

557 – Leobinus, bishop of Chartres

757 – Li Lin, prince of the Tang dynasty

840 – Einhard, Frankish scholar

968 – Matilda of Ringelheim, Frankish queen and saint (b. 895)

1397 – Henry VIII the Sparrow, Duke of Żagań–Głogów (b.c. 1357)

1457 – The Jingtai Emperor, ruler of Ming China (b. 1428)

1471 – Thomas Malory, English author and politician (b. 1405)

1571 – John Sigismund Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1540)

1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)

1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)

1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)

1696 – Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1625)

1748 – George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1673)

1757 – John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1704)

1765 – Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. 1703)

1791 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (b. 1725)

1803 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)

1805 – Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Polish-Lithuanian general (b. 1753)

1811 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)

1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1739)

1823 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (b. 1735)

1860 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802)

1877 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1793)

1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)

1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (b. 1827)

1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)

1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)

1942 – René Bull, Irish lieutenant and illustrator (b. 1872)

1946 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)

1949 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American journalist and politician, 17th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1873)

1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)

1965 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)

1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)

1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)

1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)

1973 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)

1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)

1976 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)

1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)

1979 – Frank McEncroe, Australian businessman (b. 1908)

1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1902)

1980 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)

1983 – Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (b. 1927)

1984 – Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)

1991 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (b. 1950)

1991 – Margery Sharp, English author (b. 1905)

1992 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1995 – Ed Roberts, pioneering leader of the disability rights movement (b. 1939)

1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1907)

1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)

1999 – John Broome, American author (b. 1913)

2002 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1930)

2003 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)

2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)

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

2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (b. 1912)

2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)

2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)

2012 – Eddie King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)

2012 – Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)

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

2013 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)

2013 – Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936)

2013 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)

2014 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)

2014 – Gary Burger, American singer and guitarist (b. 1942)

2014 – Hans Fogh, Danish-Canadian sailor (b. 1938)

2014 – Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934)

2014 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (b. 1948)

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

2016 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)

2016 – Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Leobinus

Matilda

Constitution Day (Andorra)

Earliest day on which Lazarus Saturday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the day before Palm Sunday. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)

Pi Day, also see July 22 – "Pi Approximation Day"

Second Equirria (Roman Empire)

Spring Day (Albania)

White Day, complementary day of Valentine's Day when men give gifts to women (Japan and Korea)

References

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