SomeFacts | March 14

On this day - March 14

1074 — Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their ...

1590 — Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the ...

1647 — Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden ...

1663 — According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his ...

1674 — The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in ...

1757 — Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort ...

1794 — Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1864 — Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by ...

1885 — The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur ...

1900 — The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States ...

1901 — Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would ...

1903 — Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national ...

1916 — Battle of Verdun: German attack captured Côte 265 at the west ...

1920 — In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of ...

1921 — Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists ...

1923 — Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican ...

1926 — The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people ...

1931 — Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.

1939 — Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.

1942 — Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated ...

1943 — The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is ...

1945 — The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first ...

1951 — Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the ...

1961 — A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba ...

1964 — Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the ...

1967 — The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a ...

1972 — Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab ...

1978 — The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day ...

1979 — Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International ...

1980 — LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach ...

1982 — The South African government bombs the headquarters of the ...

1988 — In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat ...

1991 — Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert –which was to become ...

1995 — Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to ...

2006 — Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an ...

2006 — The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.

2007 — The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in ...

2008 — A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa ...

2017 — A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes ...

2019 — Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing ...

2021 — Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the ...