Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14
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March 14: Purim in Judaism (2006), New Year's Day in the Sikh Nanakshahi calendar, White Day in Japan, Pi Day.
- 1590 - French Wars of Religion: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots decisively defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne in the Battle of Ivry.
- 1757 - Admiral John Byng of the British Royal Navy was executed by firing squad for breaching the Articles of War at the start of the Seven Years' War.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney (pictured) patented the cotton gin.
- 1984 - Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1991 - The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of murder and bombing pubs in Birmingham, England, were released after 16 years in prison.
