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Events on the 14th of March in history

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14 Mar 2044 Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
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14 Mar 0313 Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
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14 Mar 1381 Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
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14 Mar 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
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14 Mar 1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
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14 Mar 1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands
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14 Mar 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
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14 Mar 1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
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14 Mar 1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
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14 Mar 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
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14 Mar 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
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14 Mar 1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
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14 Mar 1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as King and Queen
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14 Mar 1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
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14 Mar 1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
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14 Mar 1757 Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
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14 Mar 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.
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14 Mar 1782 Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
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14 Mar 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
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14 Mar 1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
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14 Mar 1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
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14 Mar 1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
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14 Mar 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)
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14 Mar 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panam
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14 Mar 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
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14 Mar 1840 Jos
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14 Mar 1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
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14 Mar 1845 -5.3
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14 Mar 1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
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14 Mar 1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris France
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14 Mar 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
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14 Mar 1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
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14 Mar 1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres
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14 Mar 1885 "Mikado" opera premieres in London
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14 Mar 1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
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14 Mar 1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London
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14 Mar 1888 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
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14 Mar 1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")
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14 Mar 1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
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14 Mar 1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed September 1, 1952)
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14 Mar 1899 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
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14 Mar 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
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14 Mar 1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
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14 Mar 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
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14 Mar 1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
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14 Mar 1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
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14 Mar 1903 The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
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14 Mar 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.
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14 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
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14 Mar 1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
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14 Mar 1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms
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14 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
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14 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Montr
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14 Mar 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
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14 Mar 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
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14 Mar 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
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14 Mar 1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
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14 Mar 1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
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14 Mar 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.
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14 Mar 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
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14 Mar 1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
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14 Mar 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
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14 Mar 1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions
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14 Mar 1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
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14 Mar 1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
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14 Mar 1923 President Warren G Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes
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14 Mar 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galici
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14 Mar 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
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14 Mar 1923 President Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes
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14 Mar 1926 El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.
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14 Mar 1931 Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
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14 Mar 1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York NY)
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14 Mar 1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
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14 Mar 1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
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14 Mar 1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
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14 Mar 1936 The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
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14 Mar 1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
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14 Mar 1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
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14 Mar 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
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14 Mar 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
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14 Mar 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
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14 Mar 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
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14 Mar 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
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14 Mar 1941 Xavier Cugat and Orchestra record "Babalu"
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14 Mar 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
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14 Mar 1941 Xavier Cugat & his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
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14 Mar 1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
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14 Mar 1943 World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
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14 Mar 1945 World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
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14 Mar 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
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14 Mar 1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
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14 Mar 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
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14 Mar 1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
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14 Mar 1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
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14 Mar 1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
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14 Mar 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
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14 Mar 1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Mar 1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party
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14 Mar 1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
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14 Mar 1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior MN (CBS) begins
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14 Mar 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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14 Mar 1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
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14 Mar 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
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14 Mar 1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
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14 Mar 1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
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14 Mar 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
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14 Mar 1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
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14 Mar 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
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14 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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14 Mar 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
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14 Mar 1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
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14 Mar 1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets
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14 Mar 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
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14 Mar 1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
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14 Mar 1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists
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14 Mar 1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
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14 Mar 1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
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14 Mar 1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder
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14 Mar 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
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14 Mar 1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
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14 Mar 1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
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14 Mar 1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
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14 Mar 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
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14 Mar 1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
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14 Mar 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
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14 Mar 1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, West Indies vs New Zealand
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14 Mar 1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
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14 Mar 1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
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14 Mar 1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
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14 Mar 1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
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14 Mar 1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
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14 Mar 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
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14 Mar 1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
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14 Mar 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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14 Mar 1978 The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
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14 Mar 1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
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14 Mar 1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
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14 Mar 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
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14 Mar 1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay
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14 Mar 1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (USSR)
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14 Mar 1980 In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
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14 Mar 1980 3rd Emmy Sports Awards presentation
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14 Mar 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
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14 Mar 1980 World Ice Dance Championship in Dortmund West Germany won by Krisztina Regoczy & Andras Sallay (Hungary)
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14 Mar 1980 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai (USSR)
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14 Mar 1980 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
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14 Mar 1980 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann (German Democratic Republic)
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14 Mar 1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
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14 Mar 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
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14 Mar 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
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14 Mar 1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
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14 Mar 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
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14 Mar 1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
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14 Mar 1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
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14 Mar 1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
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14 Mar 1987 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
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14 Mar 1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
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14 Mar 1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
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14 Mar 1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter
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14 Mar 1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
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14 Mar 1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
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14 Mar 1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
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14 Mar 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
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14 Mar 1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
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14 Mar 1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
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14 Mar 1991 World Ice Dance Championship in Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (France)
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14 Mar 1991 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev (USSR)
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14 Mar 1991 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
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14 Mar 1991 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
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14 Mar 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
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14 Mar 1992 Farm Aid V
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14 Mar 1992 New York Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
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14 Mar 1993 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
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14 Mar 1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
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14 Mar 1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
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14 Mar 1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
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14 Mar 1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after performances
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14 Mar 1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
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14 Mar 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km (6: 6.57)
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14 Mar 1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
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14 Mar 1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
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14 Mar 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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14 Mar 1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
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14 Mar 1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
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14 Mar 1995 Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
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14 Mar 1995 1st time 13 people in space
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14 Mar 1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
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14 Mar 1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
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14 Mar 1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
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14 Mar 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
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14 Mar 1997 Olympics gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
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14 Mar 1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
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14 Mar 2006 Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
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14 Mar 2007 The first World Maths Day was celebrated
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14 Mar 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.
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14 Mar 2008 A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
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