What are the important events that happened on March 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 14 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 1, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,104 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontatetragon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,101 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 14 Historical Events
- 1489 –The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
- 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.
- 1994 –Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Who were born on March 14?
- 1813 –Joseph Philo Bradley, American jurist and former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1892)
- 1833 –Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States (d. 1910)
- 1844 –King Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
- 1933 –René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1946 –Steve Kanaly, American actor
- 1951 –Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
- 1958 –Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1965 –Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
- 1968 –Megan Follows, Canadian actress
- 1981 –Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
Who died on March 14?
- 1647 –Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- 1696 –Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- 1811 –Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
- 1884 –Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
- 1932 –George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1933 –Balto, Siberian Husky noted for his role in the 1925 serum run to Nome (b. 1919)
- 1973 –Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1973 –Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
- 1999 –Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
- 2009 –Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1947)
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