March 14
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Contenido March 14 is the 73rd.er (seventy-third) day of the year of the Gregorian calendar, 74.or in leap years. It is the last day of the first fifth of the year. There are 292 days left to end the year.
Events
- 44 B.C.: Casca and Casio decide the night before the murder of Julio César, which Marco Antonio should live.
- 313: Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by the Liu Cong, legislator of the Xiongnu state.
- 1381: Chioggia forms an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which changes in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 1489: the queen of Cyprus, Caterina Cornaro, yields her kingdom to Venice.
- 1492: In Spain, Queen Elizabeth the Catholic orders the conversion of Spanish Jews to Christianity or otherwise they will be expelled.
- 1516: In Flanders, against the will of the Council of Castile, and without his mother having been declared unable to reign, Prince Charles of Ghent proclaims himself king of Castile and Aragon "together with the Catholic queen".
- 1519: On the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico Hernán Cortés disembarks with seven hundred men to undertake the conquest of the country.
- 1590: Battle of Ivry: Henry IV of France and the Hugonotes defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duke of Mayenne during the Wars of Religion of France.
- 1647: In Europe—in the framework of the Thirty Years War— Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Ulm Truce.
- 1780: United States War of Independence: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte Mobile (Alabama), the last border capable of threatening the Spanish colony of New Orleans.
- 1782: In Wuchale (Ethiopia), King Tekle Guiorguis beats a group of Oromo indigenous people.
- 1800: in Rome, Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope with the name of Pius VII.
- 1844: In the state of Florida (United States) the county of Saint Lucia is founded.
- 1859: In the vicinity of La Serena (Chile), the battle of Los Loros takes place, a war episode of the Revolution of 1859.
- 1861: In Turin, Italy, the Chamber of Deputies proclaims the unitary state.
- 1888: In the states of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut (United States) the fourth day of the 1888 Great Snowstorm, with winds of 72 km/h. More than 120 cm fell, making people locked in their homes for a week.
- 1903: The United States Senate ratifys the Hay-Herran Treaty, which grants the United States the right to build the Panama Canal. The Senate of Colombia would then reject the treaty.
- 1903: Mexico founded the city of Mexicali (Baja California).
- 1905: Chelsea (United Kingdom) founded the Chelsea Football Club.
- 1909: in Barcelona (Spain) the Camp del Carrer Indústria, former stadium of the Barcelona Club Football Club, is inaugurated.
- 1915: In front of the Chilean coast—in the framework of the First World War—the British Navy plunges German battleship SMS Dresden.
- 1916: During the Battle of Verdun (in the First World War), German troops take the high places of Mort-Homme.
- 1918: The new headquarters of the Soviet government is established in the Moscow Kremlin.
- 1926: 3.8 km north-west of the city centre of San José, Costa Rica, the tragedy of the Virilla (the worst ferroviary accident in the history of that country) takes place: they derail three cars and fall in the canyon of the Virilla River. 385 pilgrims were killed visiting the Angels Basilica (on the outskirts of Cartago).
- 1936: In the Spanish Republic, the Spanish Falange is declared illegal and its leaders are arrested, including José Antonio Primo de Rivera, accused of “closing government” of the Falange premises.
- 1939: in Czechoslovakia—in the framework of World War II—German troops occupy the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
- 1941: In Antimano, west of the city of Caracas (Venezuela) the Polar Cervecería is created, with a totally Venezuelan capital. He is currently known as Polar Companies.
- 1942: in Spain the Merit medal is created at work.
- 1944: in Spain the members of the Spanish Legion return, the last of the Blue Division.
- 1948: The Marshall Plan is approved by the U.S. Senate.
- 1949: In the United States, some 450 000 U.S. miners start a strike for wage demands.
- 1951: In the framework of the Korean War, United Nations troops conquer Seoul for the second time.
- 1953: In the Soviet Union, Nikita Jrushchov is elected secretary of the Communist Party.
- 1959: In Italy, Aldo Moro accedes to the General Secretariat of Christian Democracy.
- 1960: in Panama, Fernando Eleta founded the channel RPC Televisión.
- 1964: a Dallas jury declares Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, who in turn is believed to murder John F. Kennedy, and condemns him to the electric chair.
- 1972: in New York (United States), The film is released by the Godfather.
- 1978: In Guatemala, the Legislative Assembly elects General Fernando Romeo Lucas-García as the new president of the Republic, the worst period of the Guatemalan genocide begins.
- 1979: in Mexico City, a earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6o in the Richter scale and epicenter in Petatlán (Guerrero) causes the collapse of the Ibero-American University fortunately without causing casualties.
- 1982: in Anaheim (California), the Metallica band gave its first concert at Radio City.
- 1984: in the centre of Belfast (North Ireland), Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an attempted murder.
- 1985: All political prisoners are released in Uruguay, two weeks after the end of the military dictatorship (1973-1985).
- 1993: Andorra approves its Constitution in a popular referendum.
- 1993: in New York, United States, the UN denounces six military leaders of El Salvador for the murder of Jesuits.
- 1994: Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel is published.
- 1995: Spain: the Statutes of Autonomy are approved for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
- 2001 in Genoa, Italy, the G8 contract is made.
- 2004: in Spain the Spanish Socialist Workers Party wins the general elections.
- 2004: In Russia, Vladimir Putin is re-elected president.
- 2005: Mass protests against Syrian influence occur in Beirut, Lebanon.
- 2007: total penumbral eclipse visible in Africa with the Saros 113 cycle, no other penumbral eclipse will occur until March 14, 2042.
- 2010: 80% of Chile is left without electricity in the 2010 Chilean Apagón.
- 2013: Xi Jinping is appointed president of the People's Republic of China.
- 2018: the councillor and social fighter Marielle Franco is murdered in Brazil.
- 2019: Soyuz MS-12 crewed mission takes off to the International Space Station.
- 2020: Spain enters a state of alarm due to COVID-19.
Births
- 1271: Stephen I, Bavarian aristocrat (f. 1310).
- 1665: Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (f. 1747).
- 1681: Georg Philipp Telemann, German Baroque composer (f. 1767).
- 1692: Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch physicist (f. 1761).
- 1727: Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German musician (f. 1756).
- 1754: Pepe-Hillo (José Delgado Guerra), Spanish bullfighter (f. 1801).
- 1801: Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (f. 1822).
- 1804: Johann Strauss, Austrian composer (f. 1849).
- 1807: Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen consort Swedish and Norwegian (f. 1876).
- 1820: Victor Manuel II, aristocrat and Italian king (f. 1878).
- 1822: Teresa Cristina de Borbón and Dos Sicilias, emperatriz Brasil (f. 1889).
- 1823: Théodore de Banville, French poet and playwright (f. 1891).
- 1834: Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French painter (f. 1911).
- 1835: Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (f. 1910).
- 1837: Charles Ammi Cutter, American Booker (f. 1903).
- 1841: José Ros and Surió, restorer of old Valencian furniture (f. 1928).
- 1844: Lorenzo Casanova Ruiz, Spanish painter (f. 1900).
- 1844: Humberto I, Italian king (1878-1900) (f. 1900).
- 1847: Antônio de Castro Alves, a Brazilian writer (f. 1871).
- 1853: Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (f. 1918).
- 1854: Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist, nobel medical prize in 1908 (f. 1915).
- 1854: Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (f. 1920).
- 1854: Thomas R. Marshall, American politician (f. 1925).
- 1859: Matilde Montoya, a Mexican physician, the first surgeon in that country (f. 1938).
- 1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (f. 1951).
- 1863: Casey Jones, American train driver (f. 1900).
- 1866: Alexei Alexeievich Troitzky, Russian chess scholar (f. 1942).
- 1869: Algernon Blackwood, British writer (f. 1951).
- 1869: Frederick Trump, a German-American businessman (f. 1918).
- 1870: Pedro Elías Gutiérrez, a Venezuelan musician, author of Alma llanera (f. 1954).
- 1876: Lev Semionovich Berg, Russian geographer and biologist (f. 1950).
- 1879: Albert Einstein, German physicist and philosopher, nobel prize of physics in 1921 (f. 1955).
- 1879: Tyko Sallinen, Finnish painter (f. 1955).
- 1879: Luis Otero Mujica, Chilean military (f. 1938).
- 1882: Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (f. 1969).
- 1884: Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, doctor and Uruguayan politician (f. 1971).
- 1886: Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (f. 1964).
- 1887: Sylvia Beach, American publicist (f. 1962).
- 1887: Charles Reisner, American filmmaker (f. 1962).
- 1892: Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician (f. 1971).
- 1893: Rosario Garza Sada, Mexican philanthropist (f. 1994).
- 1894: Osa Johnson, adventurer, naturalist and American photographer (f. 1953).
- 1901: Patxi Gamborena, Spanish footballer (f. 1982).
- 1902: Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, Venezuelan teacher and politician (f. 1993).
- 1903: Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (f. 1974)
- 1903: Raimundo Rolón, Paraguayan president (f. 1981).
- 1904: Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (f. 2010).
- 1904: Eduardo Aguirre Small, Mexican doctor and scientist (f. 1988).
- 1905: Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and French political commentator (f. 1983).
- 1908: Ed Heinemann, an American engineer (f. 1991).
- 1908: Maurice Merleau-Pontý, French philosopher (f. 1961).
- 1911: Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origami artist (f. 2005).
- 1912: Les Brown, American composer and saxophoneist (f. 2001).
- 1914: Jaime Castillo Velasco, a Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 2003).
- 1914: Bill Owen, British actor and composer (f. 1999).
- 1914: Lee Petty, driver and owner of motor racing equipment (f. 2000).
- 1920: Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (f. 2001).
- 1922: China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (f. 2014).
- 1923: Diane Arbus, American photographer (f. 1971).
- 1924: Jacques Antoine, French television producer (f. 2012).
- 1925: Onofre Lovero, director of theatre and Argentine actor (f. 2012).
- 1928: Frank Borman, American astronaut.
- 1928: Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, ethologist, naturalist and Spanish television presenter (f. 1980).
- 1928: Nelly Meden, an Argentine actress (f. 2004).
- 1930: Jorge Barreiro, Argentine actor (f. 2009).
- 1933: Michael Caine, British actor.
- 1933: Vladas Douksas, Uruguayan footballer (f. 2007).
- 1933: Rene Felber, Swiss politician (f. 2020).
- 1933: Quincy Jones, American composer and musical producer.
- 1933: Manuel Piñeiro, Cuban politician and military (f. 1998).
- 1934: Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (f. 2017).
- 1934: Leonid Rógozov, a Russian doctor who practiced self-surgery (f. 2000).
- 1934: Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (f. 2017).
- 1937: Baltasar Porcel, Spanish writer (f. 2009).
- 1937: Ramón Escobar Santiago, Spanish politician (f. 2020).
- 1938: Eleanor Bron, British actress and writer.
- 1938: Glauber Rocha, Brazilian filmmaker (f. 1981).
- 1939: Héctor Bonilla, Mexican actor and politician (f. 2022).
- 1941: Wolfgang Petersen, German filmmaker (f. 2022).
- 1944: Manuel Raga, Mexican basketball player.
- 1945: Walter Parazaider, American saxophoneist (Chicago).
- 1946: Gianni Bella, Italian singer.
- 1946: Steve Kanaly, American actor.
- 1946: Wes Unseld, American basketball player (f. 2020).
- 1946: Alvaro Arzú, politician and Guatemalan businessman, president of Guatemala between 1996 and 2000 (f. 2018).
- 1948: Tom Coburn, American physician and politician (f. 2020).
- 1948: Billy Crystal, American actor.
- 1948: Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor.
- 1948: James Nachtwey, American photographer.
- 1949: Rafael Calderón Fournier, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, president of Costa Rica between 1994 and 1998.
- 1952: Jaime Caruana, Spanish economist.
- 1953: Julia López de la Torre, Spanish journalist (f. 2010).
- 1955: Daniel Bertoni, Argentine footballer.
- 1956: Tessa Sanderson, British athlete.
- 1957: Franco Frattini, Euro MP and Italian politician.
- 1957: Tad Williams, American writer.
- 1958: Alberto II, monegasque aristocrat.
- 1958: Bruno Dumont, French filmmaker.
- 1959: Tamara Tunie, American actress and director.
- 1960: Kirby Puckett, American baseball player. (f. 2006).
- 1961: José Luis Mendilibar Etxebarria, player and Spanish football coach.
- 1961: King Washam, American drummer, Scratch Acid.
- 1963: Pedro Duque, aeronautical engineer, astronaut and Spanish politician, the first Spanish national astronaut.
- 1963: Toñi Salazar, Spanish singer, of the Sugar Moreno band.
- 1964: Roberto Gómez Fernández, producer, director, actor and Mexican comedian.
- 1965: Aamir Khan, Indian actor and director.
- 1965: Kevin Williamson, American writer.
- 1965: William Calderón Salazar, a Colombian journalist.
- 1966: Gary Anthony Williams, American actor.
- 1967: Jorge Alfredo Vargas, Colombian news anchor.
- 1968: James Frain, British actor.
- 1969: Larry Johnson, American basketball player.
- 1969: Michael Bland, American drummer, of the Soul Asylum band.
- 1974: Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional fighter.
- 1974: Grace Park, American actress.
- 1974: José Nivaldo Martins Constante, Brazilian footballer.
- 1975: Steve Harper, English footballer.
- 1976: Antonio Sancho, Mexican footballer.
- 1977: Zé António, Portuguese footballer.
- 1977: Ida Corr, Danish singer and composer.
- 1977: Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (f. 2011).
- 1977: Andrés Silvera, Argentine soccer player.
- 1977: Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer.
- 1978: María Casado, a Spanish journalist.
- 1978: Carlo Giuliani, an Italian anti-globalization activist (f. 2001).
- 1978: Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer.
- 1978: Monica Mayhem, Australian exotic dancer and pornographic actress.
- 1979: Nicolas Anelka, French footballer.
- 1979: Arsénio Cabungula LoveAngolan footballer.
- 1979: Chris Klein, American actor.
- 1979: Antonio Serrano Dávila, Peruvian footballer.
- 1979: Caleb Norkus, American footballer.
- 1979: Reinaldo da Cruz Oliveira, Brazilian footballer.
- 1980: Mercedes McNab, Canadian actress.
- 1980: Munetaka Aoki, Japanese actor.
- 1980: Migue González, Spanish footballer.
- 1981: Jan Polák, Czech footballer.
- 1982: François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (f. 2008).
- 1982: Elidiano Marques, Brazilian footballer.
- 1983: Jordan Taylor Hanson, American singer, Hanson band.
- 1984: Liesel Matthews, American actress and singer.
- 1984: Antoni Porowski, Canadian TV presenter.
- 1986: Jamie Bell, British actor.
- 1987: Leandro Almeida Silva, Brazilian footballer.
- 1988: Lautaro Acosta, Argentine soccer player.
- 1988: Stephen Curry, American basketball player.
- 1988: Bart Biemans, Belgian footballer.
- 1989: Colby O'Donis, American composer and guitarist.
- 1989: Patrick Patterson, American basketball player.
- 1989: Roman Procházka, Slovak footballer.
- 1990: Joe Allen, British footballer.
- 1990: Thali García, Mexican actress and singer.
- 1990: Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer.
- 1991: Walter Kannemann, Argentine footballer.
- 1992: Jakson Follmann, Brazilian footballer.
- 1993: Anna Ewers, German model.
- 1993: Víctor Álvarez, Spanish footballer.
- 1993: Renaud Ripart, French footballer.
- 1994: Ansel Elgort, an American actor.
- 1994: Michael Lüftner, Czech footballer.
- 1994: Leonardo Bertone, Swiss footballer.
- 1997: Alfred García, Spanish singer.
- 1997: Dawid Kownacki, Polish footballer.
- 1997: Fashion Sakala, Zambian footballer.
- 1997: Javier Sánchez de Felipe, Spanish footballer.
- 1997: Thousands Robinson, American footballer.
- 1997: Harrie Lavreysen, Dutch cyclist.
- 1997: Simone Biles, an American art gymnast.
- 1998: Christopher Blevins, American cyclist.
- 1999: Žan Celar, Slovenian footballer.
- 1999: Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player.
- 2000: Ignacio Aliseda, Argentine footballer.
- 2000: Nicolas Gestin, French penguin.
- 2000: Nathan N'Goumou, French footballer.
- 2003: Rubén Iranzo, Spanish footballer.
Deaths
- 968: Matilde de Ringelheim (n. 895).
- 1096: Judit of Suabia, Princess of the Holy Roman German Empire (n. 1047).
- 1457: Jingtai, Chinese emperor (n. 1428).
- 1471: Thomas Malory, English writer (n. 1405).
- 1565: Vasco de Quiroga, first bishop of Michoacán (n. 1480).
- 1647: Federico Enrique de Orange-Nassau (n. 1584).
- 1682: Jacob Ruysdael, a Dutch painter (n. 1628).
- 1696: Jean Domat, French jurist (n. 1625).
- 1703: Robert Hooke, British scientist (n. 1635).
- 1803: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (n. 1724).
- 1811: Augustus FitzRoy, British politician (n. 1735).
- 1823: Charles François Dumouriez, French general (n. 1739).
- 1823: John Jervis, British Marine and Military (n. 1735).
- 1860: Karl Chega, Italian engineer (n. 1802).
- 1861: Louis Niedermeyer, French-Swiss composer and teacher (n. 1802).
- 1877: Juan Manuel de Rosas, politician and military Argentinean (n. 1793).
- 1882: Joaquín Pacheco Colás, administrator of the Public Treasury, Spanish (n. 1823).
- 1883: Karl Marx, philosopher, sociologist, economist and German writer (n. 1818).
- 1884: Buenaventura Báez, Dominican President (n. 1812).
- 1888: Rafael Martínez Molina, a Spanish doctor (n. 1816).
- 1891: Théodore de Banville, a French writer (n. 1823).
- 1919: León Guruciaga, teacher, journalist and Argentine writer of Basque origin (n. 1848).
- 1932: George Eastman, photographer, inventor, and American philanthropist, founder of Kodak, one of the first companies to manufacture serial photographic material (n. 1854).
- 1933: Balt, a dog of Siberian origin who saved the lives of many children by transporting the vaccine against diphtheria (n. 1919).
- 1936: Luis Gutiérrez Ortiz, Mexican military and political (n. 1869).
- 1939: José A. Muguerza, entrepreneur, industrial and philanthropist (n. 1858).
- 1945: Alexander Granach, German actor (n. 1893).
- 1946: Werner von Blomberg, German general (n. 1878).
- 1960: Oliver Kirk, American boxer (n. 1884).
- 1962: Giovanna Berneri, an Italian anarchist (n. 1897).
- 1962: Jerónimo Siller, Mexican military and political (n. 1880).
- 1965: Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (n. 1879).
- 1970: Fritz Perls, German psychiatrist (n. 1893).
- 1971: Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1888).
- 1973: Howard H. Aiken, American engineer (n. 1900).
- 1973: Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (n. 1907).
- 1975: Susan Hayward, American actress (n. 1917).
- 1976: Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (n. 1895).
- 1978: Augustine Rueda Sierra, Spanish anarchist (n. 1952).
- 1979: Charles Leslie Stevenson, American philosopher (n. 1906).
- 1980: Muhammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (n. 1902).
- 1980: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, a Spanish documentaryist and environmentalist (n. 1928).
- 1981: Anastasio de Gracia, trade unionist and Spanish politician (n. 1890).
- 1989: Edward Abbey, American writer and environmentalist (n. 1927).
- 1989: Zita de Borbón-Parma, an Italian aristocrat, wife of King Charles I (n. 1892).
- 1991: Margery Sharp, British writer (n. 1905).
- 1992: Jean Poiret, French actor and director (n. 1926).
- 1994: Andreas Faber-Kaiser, ufologist and Spanish writer (n. 1944).
- 1995: William Alfred Fowler, U.S. physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1983 (n. 1911).
- 1997: Fred Zinnemann, Austrian filmmaker (n. 1907).
- 1997: Manuel Medel, Mexican actor and comic (n. 1906).
- 1998: Samuel Yankelevich, television producer and Argentine businessman (n. 1921).
- 1999: Kirk Alyn, American actor (n. 1910).
- 2004: Jorge Petraglia, director of theater and Argentine actor (n. 1927).
- 2005: Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese artist of origami (n. 1911).
- 2006: Lennart Meri, Estonian politician, President of Estonia between 1992 and 2001 (n. 1929).
- 2006: Alonso Zamora Vicente, philologist, dialectologist, lexicographer and Spanish writer (n. 1916).
- 2007: Lucie Aubrac, French activist and educator (n. 1912).
- 2008: Chiara Lubich, Italian religious, founder of the Focolare Movement (n. 1920).
- 2009: Alain Bashung, screenwriter and French actor (n. 1947).
- 2010: Peter Graves, American actor and filmmaker (n. 1926).
- 2012: liceensu Tabone, Maltese politician, president of Malta between 1989 and 1994 (n. 1913).
- 2013: Ieng Sary, Cambodian politician (n. 1925).
- 2017: Berto Fontana, actor and Uruguayan theatre director (n. 1925).
- 2018: Stephen Hawking, physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and British scientific divulner (n. 1942).
- 2018: Emilio Disi, Argentine actor and humorist (n. 1943).
- 2019: Charlie Whiting, British Engineer (n. 1952).
- 2020: Mariano Puga, a Catholic priest and a Chilean human rights activist (n. 1931).
- 2021: Henry Darrow, an American actor (n. 1933).
- 2022: Charles Greene, American athlete (n. 1945).
- 2022: Gianluca Ferraris, Italian writer and journalist (n. 1976).
- 2022: Scott Hall, American fighter (n. 1958).
Celebrations
- International Mathematics Day
- Day of π dedicated to the number pi by the way it is written, in the format used in the United States, on March 14 (3,14).
- World Endometriosis Day
- In Korea and Japan the White Day is celebrated on 14 March, which is similar to Valentine's Day.
- Argentina: Day of the Border Schools.
Catholic saints list
- San Alejandro de Pidnamartyr (f. c. 390)
- San Lázaro de Milan, bishop (s. V)
- San Leobino de Chartres, bishop (f. c. 557)
- Santa Matilde de Quedlinburg (f. 968)
- Saint Pauline of Fulda(f. 1107)
- Beato Agno de Zaragoza, bishop (f. 1260)
- Blessed Eva of Mount Cornelius(f. 1265)
- Blessed Jacobo Cusmano, priest (f. 1888)
- Plácido Riccardi, presbyter (f. 1915)
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