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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 ...