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
- 1381 –Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1900 –The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
- 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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