March 14 in history
Events on March 14
Notable events that happened on March 14 in past years.
- 2021
Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
Wikipedia article: Hlaingthaya massacre - 2008
A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
Wikipedia article: 2008 Tibetan unrest - 2006
Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat.
Wikipedia article: Operation Bringing Home the Goods - 1988
In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
Wikipedia article: Johnson South Reef skirmish - 1979
Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
Wikipedia article: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 - 1967
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Wikipedia article: John F. Kennedy - 1951
Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
Wikipedia article: Korean War - 1942
Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
Wikipedia article: Penicillin - 1931
Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
Wikipedia article: Alam Ara - 1921
Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.
Wikipedia article: Irish Republican Army - 1903
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Wikipedia article: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge - 1885
The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
Wikipedia article: The Mikado - 1780
American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
Wikipedia article: American Revolutionary War - 1663
According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.
- 1074
Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
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