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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
292 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and
the Huguenots defeat the forces of
the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of
Mayenne, during the French Wars of
Religion.[1] ·
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.[2] ·
1663 – According to
his own account, Otto von Guericke completes
his book De Vacuo.[3] ·
1674 – The Third Anglo-Dutch
War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results
in the Dutch East India
Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being
captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.[4] ·
1757 – Admiral
Sir John Byng is executed by
firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for
breach of the Articles of War.[5] ·
1780 – American
Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort
Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier
post capable of threatening New Orleans.[6] ·
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.[7] ·
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public
performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.[8] ·
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is
ratified, placing the United States
currency on the gold standard.[9] ·
1903 – Pelican
Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife
refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.[10] ·
1920 – In the second
of the 1920 Schleswig
plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to
remain part of Weimar Germany.[11] ·
1926 – The El Virilla
train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds
another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.[12] ·
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is
released.[13] ·
1939 – Slovakia declares
independence under German pressure.[14] ·
1942 – Anne Miller
becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.[15] ·
1943 – The liquidation
of the Kraków Ghetto is
completed.[16] ·
1945 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first
time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.[17] ·
1951 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.[18] ·
1961 – A USAF B-52
bomber crashes near
near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.[19] ·
1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald,
the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.[20] ·
1967 – The body of
U.S. President John F. Kennedy is
moved to a permanent
burial place at Arlington
National Cemetery.[21] ·
1978 – The Israel Defense
Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to
invade and occupy southern Lebanon.[22] ·
1980 – LOT Flight 7 crashes during final
approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including
a 14-man American boxing team.[23] ·
1982 – The South
African government bombs the headquarters of the African National
Congress in London.[24] ·
1988 – In the Johnson South
Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an
altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.[25] ·
1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first
American astronaut to ride
to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.[26] ·
2006 – The 2006
Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.[27] ·
2007 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal results in the deaths of at
least 14 people.[28] ·
2008 – A series
of riots, protests, and
demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and
subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.[29] ·
2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique,
causing devastating floods and over 1000 deaths.[30] Births[edit]
·
1638 – Johann Georg Gichtel,
German mystic (d. 1710)[31] ·
1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm,
German painter and engraver (d. 1863)[32] ·
1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and
architect (d. 1874)[33] ·
1801 – Kristjan Jaak
Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)[34] ·
1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and
conductor (d. 1849)[35] ·
1813 – Joseph P. Bradley,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1892)[36] ·
1820 – Victor
Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)[37] ·
1822 – Teresa
Cristina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889)[38] ·
1823 – Théodore de Banville,
French poet and critic (d. 1891)[39] ·
1833 – Frederic Shields, English painter and
illustrator (d. 1911)[40] ·
1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor,
American dentist and educator (d. 1910)[41] ·
1835 – Giovanni
Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)[42] ·
1836 – Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs
Beeton's Book of Household Management (d. 1865)[43] ·
1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter,
American librarian (d. 1903)[44] ·
1844 – Umberto I of Italy (d.
1900)[45] ·
1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy,
English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881)[46] ·
1847 – Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright
(d. 1871)[47] ·
1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)[48] ·
1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and
biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1915)[49] ·
1854 – John Lane,
English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (d. 1925)[50] ·
1854 – Alexandru Macedonski,
Romanian author and poet (d. 1920)[51] ·
1854 – Thomas R. Marshall,
American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d.
1925)[52] ·
1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and
meteorologist (d. 1951)[53] ·
1863 – Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)[54] ·
1868 – Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and
activist (d. 1933)[55] ·
1869 – Algernon Blackwood,
English author and playwright (d. 1951)[56] ·
1874 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman,
co-founded Philips Electronics (d.
1951)[57] ·
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist,
engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1955)[41] ·
1882 – Wacław
Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)[58] ·
1885 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and
pilot (d. 1918)[59] ·
1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)[60] ·
1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher,
founded Shakespeare
and Company (d. 1962)[61] ·
1898 – Reginald Marsh,
French-American painter and illustrator (d. 1954)[62] ·
1899 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman,
founded Irving Oil (d.
1992)[63] ·
1901 – Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long
jumper (d. 1977)[64] ·
1903 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and
sculptor (d. 1974)[65] ·
1904 – Doris Eaton Travis,
American actress and dancer (d. 2010)[66] ·
1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist,
sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)[67] ·
1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and
educator (d. 1972)[68] ·
1908 – Ed Heinemann, American designer of military
aircraft (d. 1991)[69] ·
1908 – Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (d. 1961)[70] ·
1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and
businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (d.
1979)[71] ·
1911 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (d. 2005)[72] ·
1912 – Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)[73] ·
1912 – Les Brown,
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2001)[74] ·
1912 – W. Graham Claytor,
Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United
States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)[75] ·
1912 – W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and
politician, 10th United
States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)[76] ·
1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (d.
1981)[77] ·
1914 – Bill Owen,
English actor and songwriter (d. 1999)[78] ·
1914 – Lee Petty, American race car driver and
businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (d.
2000)[79] ·
1915 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist,
composer, and conductor (d. 2005)[80] ·
1916 – Horton Foote, American author, playwright,
and screenwriter (d. 2009)[41] ·
1917 – Alan Smith,
English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)[81] ·
1918 – Zoia Horn, American librarian (d. 2014)[82] ·
1919 – Max Shulman, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1988)[83] ·
1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and
cartoonist, created Dennis
the Menace (d. 2001)[84] ·
1920 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam,
English high jumper (d. 2014)[85] ·
1921 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman,
founded Chick-fil-A (d.
2014)[86] ·
1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable,
American author and critic (d. 2013)[87] ·
1922 – Les Baxter, American pianist and composer
(d. 1996)[88] ·
1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)[89] ·
1925 – William Clay Ford,
Sr., American businessman (d. 2014)[90] ·
1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and
businessman (d. 2013)[91] ·
1926 – François Morel,
Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2018)[92] ·
1928 – Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and
astronaut[41] ·
1928 – Félix
Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)[93] ·
1929 – Bob Goalby, American golfer[94] ·
1932 – Mark Murphy,
American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)[95] ·
1932 – Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia[96] ·
1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and author[41] ·
1933 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter,
trumpet player, and producer[41] ·
1934 – Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 2017)[97] ·
1934 – Paul Rader, American 15th General of
The Salvation Army[98] ·
1936 – Bob Charles,
New Zealand golfer[99] ·
1937 – Peter van
der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2013)[100] ·
1938 – Eleanor Bron, English actress and
screenwriter[101] ·
1938 – Jan Crouch, American televangelist,
co-founder of the Trinity
Broadcasting Network (d. 2016)[102] ·
1938 – John Gleeson,
Australian cricketer (d. 2016)[103] ·
1938 – Árpád Orbán,
Hungarian footballer (d. 2008)[104][105] ·
1939 – Raymond J. Barry, American actor[106] ·
1939 – Bertrand Blier, French director and
screenwriter[107] ·
1939 – Yves Boisset, French director and
screenwriter[108] ·
1941 – Wolfgang Petersen,
German-American director, producer, and screenwriter[109] ·
1942 – Rita Tushingham, English actress[41] ·
1943 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer
(d. 1994)[110] ·
1944 – Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor[111] ·
1944 – Václav Nedomanský,
Czech ice hockey player and manager[112] ·
1944 – Bobby
Smith, English footballer and manager[113] ·
1944 – Tom Stannage, Australian historian and
academic (d. 2012)[114] ·
1945 – Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and
game show host[115] ·
1945 – Michael Martin
Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[116] ·
1945 – Walter Parazaider,
American saxophonist[117] ·
1946 – William Lerach, American securities and
class action attorney[118] ·
1946 – Wes Unseld, American basketball player,
coach, and manager[119] ·
1947 – Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (d.
1993)[120] ·
1947 – William J. Jefferson,
American lawyer and politician[121] ·
1947 – Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and
keyboard player[122] ·
1948 – Tom Coburn, American physician and
politician (d. 2020)[123] ·
1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter[41] ·
1948 – Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor[124] ·
1950 – Rick Dees, American actor and radio host[41] ·
1951 – Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's[125] ·
1953 – Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (d.
2013)[126] ·
1955 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and
screenwriter (d. 2013)[127] ·
1956 – Alexey Pajitnov, Russian video game designer
and computer engineer, creator of Tetris[128] ·
1956 – Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and
coach[129] ·
1957 – Tad Williams, American author[130] ·
1958 – Albert II,
Prince of Monaco[131] ·
1959 – Laila Robins, American actress[132] ·
1959 – Tamara Tunie, American actress[41] ·
1960 – Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and
academic[133] ·
1961 – Garry Jack, Australian rugby league player
and coach[134] ·
1961 – Mike Lazaridis, Turkish–Canadian businessman
and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited[135] ·
1963 – Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach[136] ·
1965 – Kevin
Brown, American baseball player and coach[137] ·
1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and
director[138] ·
1965 – Billy Sherwood, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer[139] ·
1965 – Kevin
Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[140] ·
1966 – Jonas Elmer,
Danish actor, director, and screenwriter[141] ·
1966 – Elise Neal, American actress and producer[142] ·
1968 – Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress[143] ·
1969 – Larry
Johnson, American basketball player and actor[144] ·
1970 – Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist[145] ·
1972 – Irom Chanu Sharmila,
Indian poet and activist[146] ·
1973 – Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and
producer[147] ·
1974 – Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player[148] ·
1975 – Steve Harper, English footballer and referee[149] ·
1975 – Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole
vaulter[150] ·
1976 – Phil Vickery,
English rugby player and sportscaster[151] ·
1977 – Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and
coach[152] ·
1977 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)[153] ·
1977 – Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby
player[154] ·
1978 – Pieter van den
Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer[155] ·
1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager[156] ·
1979 – Chris Klein,
American actor[157] ·
1979 – Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer[158] ·
1980 – Aaron
Brown, English footballer and coach[159] ·
1980 – Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player[160] ·
1981 – Bobby Jenks, American baseball player[41] ·
1981 – George Wilson,
American football player[161] ·
1982 – Carlos Marinelli, Argentinian footballer[162] ·
1982 – François Sterchele,
Belgian footballer (d. 2008)[163] ·
1983 – Bakhtiyar Artayev,
Kazakh boxer[164] ·
1986 – Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer[165] ·
1986 – Jessica Gallagher,
Australian skier and cyclist[166] ·
1986 – Andy
Taylor, English footballer[167] ·
1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player[41] ·
1988 – Rico Freimuth, German decathlete[168] ·
1989 – Kevin
Lacroix, Canadian race car driver[169] ·
1990 – Joe Allen, Welsh footballer[170] ·
1990 – Tamás Kádár,
Hungarian footballer[171] ·
1990 – Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress[172] ·
1990 – Kolbeinn Sigþórsson,
Icelandic footballer[173] ·
1991 – Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler[174] ·
1991 – László
Szűcs, Hungarian footballer[175] ·
1991 – Steven Zellner, German footballer[176] ·
1993 – Philipp Ziereis, German footballer[177] ·
1994 – Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ[178] ·
1996 – Batuhan
Altıntaş, Turkish footballer[179] ·
1997 – Simone Biles, American gymnast[180] ·
2000 – Paige Rini, Canadian water skier[181] ·
2008 – Abby Ryder Fortson,
American actress[182] Deaths[edit]
·
840 – Einhard, Frankish scholar[183] ·
968 – Matilda of
Ringelheim, Saxon queen (b. c. 896)[184] ·
1555 – John
Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)[185] ·
1647 – Frederick
Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)[186] ·
1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron,
English general and politician (b. 1584)[187] ·
1696 – Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (b.
1625)[188] ·
1748 – George Wade, Irish field marshal and
politician (b. 1673)[189] ·
1757 – John Byng, British admiral and politician,
11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b.
1704)[5] ·
1791 – Johann Salomo Semler,
German historian and critic (b. 1725)[190] ·
1803 – Friedrich
Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)[191] ·
1811 – Augustus
FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)[192] ·
1823 – Charles
François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French
Minister of War (b. 1739)[193] ·
1860 – Carl Ritter von
Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b.
1802)[194] ·
1877 – Juan Manuel de Rosas,
Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor
of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1793)[195] ·
1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist
(b. 1818)[196] ·
1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian economist and
politician, Italian Minister of Finances (b. 1827)[197] ·
1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and
businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)[198] ·
1953 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist
politician and 14th President of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)[199] ·
1957 – Evagoras
Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)[200] ·
1965 – Marion Jones
Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)[201] ·
1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and
academic (b. 1892)[202] ·
1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter,
illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)[203] ·
1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist
and engineer (b. 1900)[204] ·
1973 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)[205] ·
1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)[206] ·
1976 – Busby Berkeley, American director and
choreographer (b. 1895)[207] ·
1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and
philanthropist (b. 1917)[208] ·
1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician,
3rd Prime
Minister of Indonesia (b. 1902)[209] ·
1980 – Félix
Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)[93] ·
1984 – Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)[210] ·
1989 – Zita of
Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and
Queen of Hungary (b. 1892)[211] ·
1991 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and
composer (b. 1950)[212] ·
1995 – William Alfred
Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1911)[213] ·
1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director
and producer (b. 1907)[214] ·
1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)[215] ·
1999 – John Broome,
American author (b. 1913)[216] ·
2003 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter
(b. 1945)[217] ·
2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère,
French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)[218] ·
2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and
politician, 2nd President of Estonia (b.
1929)[219] ·
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist
(b. 1912)[220] ·
2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded
the Focolare Movement (b.
1920)[221] ·
2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)[222] ·
2012 – Pierre
Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)[223] ·
2012 – Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and
politician, 4th President of Malta (b.
1913)[224] ·
2013 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1930)[225] ·
2013 – Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author
(b. 1936)[226] ·
2013 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian
politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b.
1925)[227] ·
2014 – Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster
General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)[228] ·
2014 – Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934)[229] ·
2016 – John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist
and academic (b. 1928)[230] ·
2016 – Peter Maxwell Davies,
English composer and conductor (b. 1934)[231] ·
2016 – Suranimala
Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949)[232] ·
2018 – Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV
personality (b. 1937)[233] ·
2018 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and
human rights activist (b. 1979)[234] ·
2018 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and
author (b. 1942)[235] ·
2018 – Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (b. 1945)[236] ·
2019 – Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and
Thrasher editor-in-chief (b. 1962)[237] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o March
14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constitution
Day (Andorra)[239] ·
Heroes' Day (Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines)[240] ·
Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)[241] ·
Nanakshahi New Year,
first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism)[242] ·
Summer Day (Albania)[244] ·
White Day on which men give gifts to
women; complementary to Valentine's Day (Japan and other Asian
nations)[245] |
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