March 14

What happened that day?

• 2008: A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
• 2007: The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
• 2006: Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
• 1995: Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
• 1994: Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
• 1988: Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
• 1980: In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• 1979: In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.
• 1978: The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
• 1972: Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
• 1967: The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1964: A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 1961: USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca.
• 1951: Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
• 1945: World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
• 1943: World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
• 1942: Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
• 1939: Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
• 1936: The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.
• 1931: Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• 1926: El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. Two hundred forty-eight are killed and 93 wounded.
• 1910: Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
• 1903: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1903: The Hay-Herrán 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.
• 1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
• 1885: The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
• 1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• 1782: Battle of [Wuchale](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchale): Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
• 1780: American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
• 1757: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
• 1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.
• 1647: Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1590: Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1489: The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
• 1381: Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
• 313: Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
• 44 BC: Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.