Today in History
14th March
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| 1369 Henry of Trastamare defeated Pedro I of Castile at the battle of Montiel in the Castilian Civil War. Pedro was executed nine days later. | ||
| 1489 Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus and last of the Lusignan dynasty, sold her kingdom to Venice. | ||
| 1558 Ferdinand I assumed the title of Holy Roman Emperor without being crowned by the pope. | ||
| 1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth | ||
| 1590 In the French Religious Wars, Henry IV, with an army of 13,000, defeated the 25,000-strong army of the Duc de Mayenne at the battle of Ivry. | ||
| 1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony | ||
| 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) | ||
| 1647 In the Thirty Years War, a Treaty of Neutrality was signed at Ulm between France, Sweden, Bavaria and Cologne. | ||
| 1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno | ||
| 1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen | ||
| 1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne | ||
| 1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) | ||
| 1757 British Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad for his bungled attempt to relieve the island of Minorca threatened by the French fleet. | ||
| 1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin | ||
| 1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII | ||
| 1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 | ||
| 1820 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78) was born | ||
| 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) | ||
| 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panam | ||
| 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia | ||
| 1840 Jos‚ Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid | ||
| 1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) | ||
| 1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern | ||
| 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana | ||
| 1864 Samuel Baker discovered another source of the Nile in East Africa and named it Lake Albert Nyanza | ||
| 1870 Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible | ||
| 1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher and economist, died in London. He published, with Friedrich Engels, the Communist Manifesto. | ||
| 1885 "The Mikado," the comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, premiered at the Savoy Theatre, London. | ||
| 1891 The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel. | ||
| 1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics | ||
| 1900 The United States adopted the gold standard | ||
| 1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A | ||
| 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt | ||
| 1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation | ||
| 1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty | ||
| 1915 In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden was sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific. | ||
| 1916 Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun | ||
| 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF | ||
| 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galici in Poland | ||
| 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP | ||
| 1923 Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes | ||
| 1932 George Eastman, American photographic pioneer who founded the Kodak company, committed suicide | ||
| 1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation | ||
| 1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars | ||
| 1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US govt, publishes 1st issue | ||
| 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge | ||
| 1938 Nikolai Bukharin, a leading Bolshevik, was executed after being found guilty of counter-revolutionary activities of espionage in one of the most famous show trials of the 1930s. | ||
| 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day | ||
| 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1939 Hungary occupied the Carpatho-Ukraine and Slovakia declared its independence. | ||
| 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides | ||
| 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies | ||
| 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm | ||
| 1945 The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 22,000-pound "Grand Slam," was dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron in Germany on the Bielefeld railway viaduct. | ||
| 1946 Belgian govt of Spaak, forms | ||
| 1948 Freedom Train arrives in SF | ||
| 1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul | ||
| 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany | ||
| 1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game | ||
| 1954 The Vietnamese took the Gabrielle strongpoint against the French in the battle of Dien Bien Phu. | ||
| 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal | ||
| 1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) | ||
| 1957 Indonesian govt of Sastroamidjojo resigns | ||
| 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC | ||
| 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif | ||
| 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France | ||
| 1964 Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. | ||
| 1965 Israel accepted West Germany's request to establish diplomatic relations. | ||
| 1971 Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes | ||
| 1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos | ||
| 1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes | ||
| 1976 Egypt formally abrogated the 1971 Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1978 Dutch marines succeeded in freeing 71 hostages held by South Moluccans for 29 hours. On June 30, the South Moluccans were jailed for 15 years. | ||
| 1980 87 people including a 14-man U.S. boxing team died in an air crash in Warsaw. | ||
| 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century | ||
| 1983 OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices by 15 percent for the first time in its 23-year history. | ||
| 1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress | ||
| 1991 The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, returned to his war-devastated homeland two weeks to the day after the Gulf War ended. | ||
| 1991 The "Birmingham Six," six Irishmen wrongly accused of the 1974 bombing of pubs in Birmingham, England, were freed after 16 years in jail. | ||
| 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication | ||
| 1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped | ||
| 1995 Norman Thagard, the first American astronaut to fly in a Russian rocket, blasted off from the icy windswept plains of Kazakhstan. | ||
| 1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants. | ||
| 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 | ||