About March 14
March 14, 2024 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.
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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 321 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.
- 1381 –Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 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 pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
- 1794 –Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1900 –The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1945 –World War II – The R.A.F. 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, 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.
- 1984 –Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- 2006 –Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
- 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.
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