What are the important events that happened on March 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 14 is the 74th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 1, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,710,374,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontatetragon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 321 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,101 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 14 Historical Events
- 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 the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
- 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.
- 1794 –Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1939 –Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1964 –A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1967 –The body of 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 Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
- 1979 –In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
Who were born on March 14?
- 1801 –Kristjan Jaak Peterson, first Estonian poet (d. 1822)
- 1804 –Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- 1807 –Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
- 1862 –Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
- 1880 –Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
- 1961 –Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
- 1965 –Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
- 1977 –Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
- 1978 –Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
- 1980 –Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
Who died on March 14?
- 968 –Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (b. c. 895)
- 1696 –Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- 1757 –John Byng, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1704)
- 1946 –Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
- 1957 –Evagoras Pallikarides, Greek-Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
- 1975 –Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- 1984 –Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
- 1991 –Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
- 2008 –Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
- 2009 –Altovise Davis, American entertainer, Sammy Davis, Jr.'s widow (b. 1943)
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