14 March History


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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.