14 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 14, the day number in a year is 74 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 75. March 14 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1489	Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro was forced to abdicate and sell the administration of the island to the Republic of Venice.
1653	Commander Johann Van Galen of the Netherlands defeated the British fleet in the Anglo-Dutch War.
1728	Jean-Jacques Russo left Geneva for the first time.
1757	British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled andexecuted by firing squad when he failed to 'do his utmost' during theBattle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
1794	Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gene.
1794	American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, the first ever machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seedpods.
1800	Cardinal Barna Chiaramonti Pius VII was crowned as the 251st Pope in Venice on 21 March.
1826	The General Congress of South American States met in Panama.
1833	Hobbs Taylor was the first dentist born.
1834	John Herschel discovers the now open cluster of stars, now known as NGC 3603, from the Cape of Good Hope.
1879	The rich Albert Einstein was born in a middle-class family in the city of Ulm, Germany.
1885	The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performedSavoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
1910	Oil prospectors in Kern County, California, drilled into apressurized oil deposit, resulting in the largest accidental oil spillin history.
1915	First World War-British forces cornered and sank the SMSDresden, the last remnant of the German East Asia Squadron, near theChilean island of Más a Tierra.
1917	The Republic of China ended diplomatic relations with Germany.
1926	248 people died and 93 were injured in a train accident in the Latin American country of Costa Rica.
1937	Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge,condemning antisemitism, criticizing Nazism, listing breaches of anagreement signed with the Roman Catholic Church.
1941	Britain severed diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.
1945	The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000lb (9.98 t) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railroad viaduct inBielefeld, Germany.
1953	Nikita Khrushchev was elected the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1955	Prince Mahendra became the king of Nepal.
1972	Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for hisdecision to translate and publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivagoafter it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, was killed in anexplosion.
1978	Israeli–Lebanese conflict-The Israel Defense Forces beganOperation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushingPLO troops north up to the Litani River.
1983	OPEC, a group of oil producing countries, cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
1988	A special day for math lovers 'Pie Day' was celebrated for the first time.
1988	China defeated Vietnam in a naval battle as the formerattempted to establish oceanographic observation posts on the SpratlyIslands.
1989	FWD in place of Peter Botha by South African National Party. Clarke was made president.
1990	Mrs. Earth Pascal Trewil became the first female President of Haiti.
1991	The 'Birmingham Six', wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings in England, were released after sixteen years in prison.
1994	Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu was kidnapped.
1995	For the first time, there are 13 people in space.
1997	80 people were killed as Iranian military plane crashed.
1997	Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson wins the 67th James E. Sullivan Award.
1997	President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery.
1998	Sonia Gandhi became Congress President for the first time.
2004	The constitution was amended to provide legal recognition to private property in China.
2008	The Victory Group acquired the UK's famous switchgear manufacturer 'Craig & Dericar'.
2008	A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted inLhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
2010	No reports of damage or casualties are reported after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in central Japan.
2011	The Tokyo stock exchange falls more than five percent on the first day of trading following the 2011 Sendai earthquake.
2012	Britain has 2.67 million people unemployed, its highest unemployment rate since 1995.
2013	China’s CPC General Secretary XI Jinping is named as the new President of the People’s Republic of China, with Li Yuanchao named as Vice President.
2014	The U.S plans to let its contract with ICANN expire next year; this would end U.S authority over the internet.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1931	India's first speaking film, Alamara, was screened in Bombay (now Bombay).
1931	Alam Ara, the first Indian film with sound, was released.
1965	Indian film actor Aamir Khan was born.
2007	Kargil and Skardu agreed to start a bus service between India and Pakistan.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1965	Aamir Khan / Actor / India
1972	Irom Chanu Sharmila / Poet / India
1974	Rohit Shetty / Actor / India

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