On this day: March 14

Events on March 14

• 1309 On Eid al-Fitr, the citizens of Granada stormed palaces in the city, deposing Sultan Muhammad III and placing his half-brother Nasr on the throne. Wikipedia
• 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. Wikipedia
• 1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans. Wikipedia
• 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. Wikipedia
• 1903 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt. Wikipedia
• 1926 The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. Wikipedia
• 1931 Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, premiered at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay. Wikipedia
• 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. Wikipedia
• 1942 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. Wikipedia
• 1943 The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. Wikipedia
• 1945 The Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railway viaduct in Bielefeld, Germany. Wikipedia
• 1945 The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. Wikipedia
• 1951 Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. Wikipedia
• 1964 Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year. Wikipedia
• 1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. Wikipedia
• 1972 Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for his translation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago after it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, died in an explosion. Wikipedia
• 1973 Vietnam War: After having been captured by North Vietnamese forces five and a half years earlier, U.S. Navy pilot John McCain was released with 108 other prisoners of war. Wikipedia
• 1978 The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. Wikipedia
• 1980 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. Wikipedia
• 1984 Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland. Wikipedia
• 1991 Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert – which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine – is officially inaugurated. Wikipedia
• 1995 Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. Wikipedia
• 2007 The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. Wikipedia
• 2008 A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. Wikipedia
• 2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance. Wikipedia
• 2021 The Burmese military and police forces killed at least 65 civilians during the Hlaingthaya massacre in Yangon, including those protesting a recent coup d'état. Wikipedia

Born on March 14

• 1297 Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, Mongol empress consort of the Ilkhanate. Wikipedia
• 1820 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878) Wikipedia
• 1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910) Wikipedia
• 1844 Umberto I of Italy (died 1900) Wikipedia
• 1854 Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915) Wikipedia
• 1854 Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925) Wikipedia
• 1874 Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951) Wikipedia
• 1879 Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955) Wikipedia
• 1905 Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1983) Wikipedia
• 1908 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (died 1961) Wikipedia
• 1928 Frank Borman, American astronaut (died 2023) Wikipedia
• 1932 Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia Wikipedia
• 1933 Michael Caine, English actor Wikipedia
• 1933 Quincy Jones, American producer (died 2024) Wikipedia
• 1934 Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017) Wikipedia
• 1941 Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022) Wikipedia
• 1948 Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1958 Albert II, Prince of Monaco Wikipedia
• 1965 Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director Wikipedia
• 1979 Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1988 Stephen Curry, American basketball player Wikipedia
• 1997 Simone Biles, American gymnast Wikipedia

Died on March 14

• 1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724) Wikipedia
• 1811 Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1735) Wikipedia
• 1860 Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (born 1802) Wikipedia
• 1877 Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1793) Wikipedia
• 1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818) Wikipedia
• 1923 Charlie Daly and three other Irish Republicans are executed by Irish Free State forces (born 1896) Wikipedia
• 1932 George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854) Wikipedia
• 1953 Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1896) Wikipedia
• 1975 Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917) Wikipedia
• 1994 Sheila Humphreys, Irish Republican, political activist and Hunger Striker (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 1995 William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911) Wikipedia
• 1997 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907) Wikipedia
• 2006 Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (born 1929) Wikipedia
• 2018 Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Leobinus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Matilda of Ringelheim Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Constitution Day (Andorra) Wikipedia
• Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Wikipedia
• Mother Tongue Day (Estonia) Wikipedia
• Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism) Wikipedia
• Pi Day Wikipedia
• Steak and Blowjob Day, a satirical unofficial holiday created in the United States as a male response to Valentine's Day Wikipedia
• Summer Day (Albania) Wikipedia
• White Day on which men give gifts to women; complementary to Valentine's Day (Japan and other Asian nations) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “March 14” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.