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 73rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 1, 2022 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,647,216,000 seconds 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 ‘heptacontatrigon’ day.
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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 314 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 3,370 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 14 Historical Events
- 44 BC –Casca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
- 1757 –Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1885 –The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
- 1931 –Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
- 1939 –Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 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.
- 1979 –In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1995 –Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
Who were born on March 14?
- 1854 –Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
- 1854 –John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
- 1879 –Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1905 –Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1921 –S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
- 1939 –Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter
- 1944 –Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player
- 1947 –William J. Jefferson, American politician
- 1980 –Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
- 1982 –Kate Maberly, British actor, singer-songwriter
Who died on March 14?
- 968 –Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (b. c. 895)
- 1647 –Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- 1698 –Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
- 1757 –John Byng, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1704)
- 1765 –Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. c. 1703)
- 1791 –Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
- 1977 –Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- 2003 –Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
- 2007 –Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
- 2007 –Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
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