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
- 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.
- 1782 –Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
- 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.
- 1942 –Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1945 –World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
- 1967 –The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1972 –Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
- 2006 –Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
Who were born on March 14?
- 1790 –Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
- 1862 –Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
- 1904 –Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl (d. 2010)
- 1912 –W. Graham Claytor, Jr. Southern Railway and later Amtrak President (d. 1994)
- 1914 –Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1933 –René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1965 –Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
- 1986 –Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
- 1988 –Stephen Curry, American basketball player
- 1989 –Colby O'Donis, American musician
Who died on March 14?
- 1680 –René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
- 1698 –Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
- 1765 –Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. c. 1703)
- 1803 –Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
- 1933 –Balto, Siberian Husky noted for his role in the 1925 serum run to Nome (b. 1919)
- 1946 –Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
- 1977 –Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
- 1980 –Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (b. 1928)
- 1989 –Happy Humphrey, American professional wrestler known for weighing in at 800+ pounds
- 2009 –Altovise Davis, American entertainer, Sammy Davis, Jr.'s widow (b. 1943)
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