About March 14
March 14, 2024 is the 74th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 321 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 14
- 1489 –The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
- 1782 –Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
- 1885 –The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
- 1900 –The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 1903 –The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
- 1910 –Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- 1915 –World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- 1931 –Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
- 1942 –Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1943 –World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1951 –Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- 1964 –A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1967 –The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1972 –Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
- 1978 –The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
- 1980 –In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 1984 –Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- 1994 –Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 2006 –Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
- 2008 –A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
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