14 March History
- 1629 - A Royal charter is granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1743 - First American town meeting is held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
- 1757 - British Admiral John Byng is executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty.
- 1794 - Inventor Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1900 - United States currency goes on the gold standard.
- 1903 - The Senate ratifies the Hay-Herran Treaty, guaranteeing the United states the right to build a canal in Panama.
- 1912 - An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempts to kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
- 1915 - The British Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.
- 1918 - An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratifies a peace treaty with the Central Powers.
- 1923 - President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler tells a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.
- 1939 - The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia.
- 1943 - The Germans reoccupy Kharkov in the Soviet Union.
- 1947 - The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
- 1951 - U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.
- 1954 - The Viet Minh launch an assault against the French Colonial Forces at Dien Bien Phu.
- 1964 - A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1967 - John F. Kennedy's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery.
- 1978 - An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.
- 1990 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
- 1991 - The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence.
14 March Birthdays
- 1804 - Johann Strauss, violinist and composer.
- 1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist.
- 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize for medicine.
- 1864 - Casey Jones, railroad engineer.
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born mathematician best known for his theories on relativity.
- 1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, the last man on the moon.