Historical events on this day

14 Mar 1369

Battle of Montiel Pedro of Castile with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II

14 Mar 1489

The last Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro is forced to abdicate by Venice

14 Mar 1559

Storm floods ravage Gorinchem Dordrecht & Woudrichem Netherlands

14 Mar 1592

Ultimate Pi day on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14653)

14 Mar 1644

England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

14 Mar 1647

Thirty Years War Bavaria Cologne France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

14 Mar 1653

Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno

14 Mar 1689

Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen

14 Mar 1743

1st American town meeting is held in Bostons Faneuil Hall

14 Mar 1757

On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship) British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of besieged British garrison

14 Mar 1812

Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of

14 Mar 1821

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)

14 Mar 1826

General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama

14 Mar 1840

Jose Zorillas El Zapatero y el Rey premieres in Madrid

14 Mar 1862

Battle of New Bern North Carolina General Burnside conquers New Bern

14 Mar 1864

Gioacchino Rossinis Petite Messe Solennelle premieres in Paris

14 Mar 1869

Defeat of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand

14 Mar 1870

California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

14 Mar 1885

Gilbert & Sullivans comic opera Mikado premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre

14 Mar 1889

August Strindbergs Froken Julie premieres in Copenhagen

14 Mar 1896

Sutro Baths in San Francisco opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 1952)

14 Mar 1899

Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University 6-2 to clinch trophy for CAHL

14 Mar 1900

Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendels laws of genetics

14 Mar 1900

US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act

14 Mar 1901

1st performance of Anton Bruckners 6th Symphony in A

14 Mar 1901

Germanys Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with Great Britain in October 1900 to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade does not apply to Manchuria

14 Mar 1903

1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian Florida

14 Mar 1903

Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa Ontario Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep

14 Mar 1903

WB Yeats & Lady Gregorys Hour-glass premieres in Dublin

14 Mar 1904

In a landmark case Northern Securities Company v United States the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act first case in T. Roosevelts trust-busting campaign

14 Mar 1907

By Presidential order Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA

14 Mar 1908

Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals 6-4

14 Mar 1910

Lakeview Gusher the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield California vented to atmosphere

14 Mar 1912

King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt

14 Mar 1913

South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites andor not registered by the Registrar of Marriages are invalid all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid

14 Mar 1915

German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Ms 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

14 Mar 1916

Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge West of Verdun

14 Mar 1918

1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco

14 Mar 1922

KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions

14 Mar 1922

KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions

14 Mar 1922

WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions

14 Mar 1923

Allies accepts Vilnius taking East-Galicia in Poland

14 Mar 1923

German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)

14 Mar 1926

Train in Costa Rica falls into the Ro Virilla killing 248 and injuring 93

14 Mar 1931

1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)

14 Mar 1933

Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation

14 Mar 1935

36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in sSn Francisco

14 Mar 1936

Federal Register 1st magazine of the US government publishes 1st issue

14 Mar 1937

Battle of the Century Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio during their feud

14 Mar 1937

Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

14 Mar 1939

England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day

14 Mar 1939

Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia

14 Mar 1940

27 killed 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen Texas

14 Mar 1941

Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies

14 Mar 1943

World War II Krakw Ghetto is liquidated

14 Mar 1950

FBIs 10 Most Wanted Fugitives program begins

14 Mar 1953

KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield MO (CBS) begins broadcasting

14 Mar 1954

Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game

14 Mar 1954

KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior MN (CBS) begins

14 Mar 1954

NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak

14 Mar 1956

Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)

14 Mar 1957

Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

14 Mar 1958

RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Comos Catch A Falling Star)

14 Mar 1958

Recording Industry Association of American created

14 Mar 1958

South Africas government prohibits the African National Congress

14 Mar 1962

Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France

14 Mar 1963

San Francisco Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists

14 Mar 1964

Girl Who Came to Supper closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances

14 Mar 1965

Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

14 Mar 1967

NFL Draft Bubba Smith from Michigan State first pick by Baltimore Colts

14 Mar 1968

CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesnt make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

14 Mar 1969

Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct

14 Mar 1969

Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings WI v NZ

14 Mar 1972

NBAs Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC

14 Mar 1972

Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry

14 Mar 1978

Marines terminate Moluccan action in Province house (1 dead)

14 Mar 1978

NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)

14 Mar 1979

A Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing China killing at least 200

14 Mar 1980

Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay

14 Mar 1980

Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)

14 Mar 1980

Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)

14 Mar 1980

Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch

14 Mar 1982

Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lankas 1st Test Cricket century

14 Mar 1984

Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission

14 Mar 1984

Gerry Adams head of Sinn Fin is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast

14 Mar 1985

Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles 427 yards

14 Mar 1986

European Space Agencys Giotto flies by Halleys Comet (605 km)

14 Mar 1987

Providence with Billy Donovans 25 points beats Austin Peay 90-87

14 Mar 1987

Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt

14 Mar 1991

Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City after the Iraqis leave

14 Mar 1991

Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)

14 Mar 1991

Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev

14 Mar 1991

Mens Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)

14 Mar 1991

English Court of Appeal frees Birmingham 6 who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

14 Mar 1992

NY Met Daryl Boston Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape

14 Mar 1992

Soviet newspaper Pravda suspends publication

14 Mar 1993

Conversations with My Father closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances

14 Mar 1993

Face Value closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances

14 Mar 1993

Saint Joan closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances

14 Mar 1993

Meg Mallon wins LPGA PingWelchs Golf Championship

14 Mar 1993

Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days

14 Mar 1993

Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)

14 Mar 1993

40th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Georgia Tech beats 1 North Carolina 77-75

14 Mar 1993

34th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats LSU 82-65

14 Mar 1993

14th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Seton Hall beats Syracuse 103-70

14 Mar 1994

Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

14 Mar 1994

Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov G Strekalov & N Thagard

14 Mar 1994

Timeline of Linux development Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

14 Mar 1996

Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi

14 Mar 1996

Crufts show at NEC Birmingham (1995 winner Joshua an Irish setter)

14 Mar 1997

68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch

14 Mar 1997

Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award

14 Mar 1997

The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.

14 Mar 2003

Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions

14 Mar 2004

51st ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Maryland beats 5 Duke 95-87

14 Mar 2004

45th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Florida 89-73

14 Mar 2005

Cedar Revolution where over a million Lebanese march in 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.

14 Mar 2010

57th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 4 Duke beats Georgia Tech 65-61

14 Mar 2010

51st SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Mississippi State 75-74 (OT)

14 Mar 2013

25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad Iraq

14 Mar 2013

7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun Mexico

14 Mar 2015

62nd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Notre Dame beats North Carolina 90-82

14 Mar 2015

36th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Villanova beats Xavier 69-52

14 Mar 2016

Marco Rubio announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race

14 Mar 2016

NASA releases data showing February warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average

14 Mar 2017

European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols including headscarves

14 Mar 2017

Worlds oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years

14 Mar 2018

UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK

14 Mar 2018

World Happiness Report names Finland as worlds happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest

14 Mar 2018

US students across American commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country

14 Mar 2018

Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio prompting mass protests

14 Mar 1592

Ultimate Pi day on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.1465358)

14 Mar 1874

English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Oxford University beats Royal Engineers 2-0

14 Mar 1916

Battle of Verdun Germans capture Cumires-le-Mort-Homme and Chattancourt in France

14 Mar 1935

36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco

14 Mar 1936

Wales beats Ireland 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record

14 Mar 1954

LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Louise Suggs wins her second Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Patty Berg

14 Mar 2004

WrestleMania XX Madison Square Garden NYC Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels

14 Mar 2009

Canterbury winger Hazem El Masri becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history 33rd minute penalty in Bulldogs 34-12 win over Manly at ANZ Stadium Sydney takes him to 2178 Andrew Johns 2176

14 Mar 2019

Former US Democratic representative Beto ORourke announces he is running for president

14 Mar 2019

Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits on pi day using Google Cloud

14 Mar 2019

California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)

14 Mar 2019

Tropical Cyclone Idai comes ashore in Mozambique killing at least 417 people and Malawi killing at least 56 after causing widespread flooding

14 Mar 1954

Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox

14 Mar 1956

50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League

14 Mar 1961

Former New York Yankees general manager George Weiss becomes first President of New York Mets after MLB expansion franchise formed

14 Mar 1967

NFL Draft Michigan State defensive end Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts

14 Mar 1969

Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win at Aqueduct Racetrack NYC aboard 2-year-old bay Bravy Galaxy at 13 to 1

14 Mar 1969

West Indies cricket batsman Seymour Nurse scores career high 258 in his last Test innings in 3rd Test win over NZ at Christchurch

14 Mar 1972

NBAs Cincinnati Royals plagued by poor home attendance announce they are moving franchise to Kansas City

14 Mar 1984

Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41-C mission

14 Mar 2020

Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance by Air Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France 9765 m (15715 km) due to COVID-19 and it was domestic

14 Mar 1812

US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of

14 Mar 1840

Jose Zorillas romantic drama El Zapatero y el Rey premieres in Madrid

14 Mar 1845

-5.3F (-20.7C) in Groningen Netherlands

14 Mar 1869

Defeat of Maori Ngti Ruanui leader Riwha Titokowaru in Taranaki New Zealand by British forces

14 Mar 1875

Bedich Smetanas symphonic poem Vysehrad premieres

14 Mar 1960

14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California

14 Mar 1979

Hawker Siddeley Trident plane crashes into a factory near Beijing China killing at least 200

14 Mar 1993

Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Ukrainian Oksana Baiul

14 Mar 1933

US Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation program

14 Mar 1958

RIAA certifies 1st gold record - Perry Comos single Catch A Falling Star

14 Mar 1793

Lieutenant Governor Simcoe of Upper Canada passes legislation for the first time against the importation of slaves after a black female slave forcibly transported to New York state to be sold [1]

14 Mar 1969

CBS-TV renews The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for a third season

14 Mar 1997

68-year-old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch

14 Mar 1644

England grants a patent to Providence Plantations for what is now Rhode Island

14 Mar 1743

First American town meeting is held in Bostons Faneuil Hall

14 Mar 1821

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York

14 Mar 1826

General Congress of South American States assembles in Panama

14 Mar 1840

Jos Zorrillas romantic drama El Zapatero y el Rey premieres in Madrid

14 Mar 1889

August Strindbergs play Froken Julie premieres in Copenhagen

14 Mar 1900

US currency goes on the gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act

14 Mar 1903

W.B. Yeats & Lady Gregorys play Hour-glass premieres in Dublin

14 Mar 1913

South Africas Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages are invalid all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid

14 Mar 1931

First theater built for rear movie projection in NYC

14 Mar 1950

FBI starts a public list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

14 Mar 1973

Liam Cosgrave (52) appointed President of Ireland

14 Mar 2017

Worlds oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland votes to admit women as members for the first time in 273 years

14 Mar 2020

Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance is flown by Air Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France covering 9765 miles (15715 km) as a domestic flight due to COVID-19

14 Mar 2021

Myanmar opposition leader Mahn Win Khaing Than calls for a revolution This is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment that the dawn is close as protester death toll over 120

14 Mar 2021

UK police officer charged with the death of Sarah Everard who disappeared walking home in south London and whose death sparked debate about violence against women

14 Mar 2022

Civilians able to leave heavily bombed Ukranian city of Mariupol for the first time amid dead toll of 2500 in the city and a humanitarian crisis [1]

14 Mar 2022

Omicron causes the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in China since Wuhan 2020 with 26 million people under lockdown in Changchun and Shenzhen [1]

14 Mar 2023

Argentinas annual inflation rate pasts 100% at 102.5% for the first time since hyperinflation in 1991 one of the highest in the world according to its statistics agency [1]

14 Mar 2023

Czech free diver David Vencl completes record dive beneath ice to 52.1 meters without a wetsuit in Switzerlands Lake Sils in temperatures between 1C and 4C (34F to 39F) [1]

14 Mar 2023

The US UK and Australia unveil details of their AUKUS deal to create a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to be based in the Indo Pacific region to counter Chinese military build-up [1]

14 Mar 2023

US large MQ-9 Reaper drone crashes into the Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter jet with the US saying the Russia forced it down sparking an international incident [1]

14 Mar 2024

A series of storms strike parts of Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Arkansas with tornadoes leaving at least 40 injured and three people dead [1]

14 Mar 2024

At least 60 migrants die from dehydration and hunger with 25 rescued after their dinghy engine breaks down off the coast of Libya [1]

14 Mar 2024

HMS Tyger a sunken British warship that ran aground in 1742 is identified lying off Garden Key Dry Tortugas National Park [1]

14 Mar 2024

Philippine police rescue over 500 people from a scam centre north of Manila forced to pose as lovers online to defraud people [1]

14 Mar 1927

Pan American Airlines incorporates as a mail delivery and passenger service

14 Mar 2025

A severe storm system begins across the US South and Midwest bringing high winds dust storms and more than 60 tornadoes over two days killing at least 42 people [1]

14 Mar 2025

Price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits 3000.00 an ounce for the first time

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