About March 14
March 14, 2025 is the 73rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun 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 340 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 14
- 44 BC –Casca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
- 313 –Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
- 1489 –The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 1647 –Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- 1757 –Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1782 –Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis 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, had its first public performance in London.
- 1903 –The Hay-Herran 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.
- 1910 –Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- 1915 –World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- 1931 –Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
- 1942 –Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1964 –A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1972 –Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
- 1979 –In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1984 –Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- 1994 –Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 2006 –Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
- 2008 –A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
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