About March 14
March 14, 2021 is the 73rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 324 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 14
- 313 –Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
- 1381 –Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 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.
- 1979 –In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1980 –In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 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.
- 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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