March 14

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
• 313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
• 1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
• 1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
• 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
• 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.
• 1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
• 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• 1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
• 1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
• 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.
• 1903 – The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents 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.
• 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.
• 1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• 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.)
• 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
• 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
• 1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
• 1945 – World War II – The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
• 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
• 1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
• 1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
• 1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• 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.
• 1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
• 1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
• 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
• 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
• 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.
• 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

Births

• 1638 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
• 1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• 1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)
• 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
• 1807 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
• 1813 – Joseph P. Bradley, American jurist (d. 1892)
• 1820 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
• 1822 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
• 1823 – Théodore de Banville, French poet (d. 1891)
• 1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist (d. 1910)
• 1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)
• 1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
• 1844 – Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet (d. 1881)
• 1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
• 1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915)
• 1854 – John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (d. 1925)
• 1854 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (d. 1920)
• 1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
• 1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
• 1863 – Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)
• 1866 – Alexey Troitsky, Russian composer and author (d. 1942)
• 1868 – Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (d. 1933)
• 1869 – Algernon Blackwood, English author (d. 1951)
• 1874 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (d. 1951)
• 1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1880 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
• 1885 – Raoul Lufbery, French-American pilot (d. 1918)
• 1886 – Edward Dierkes, American soccer player (d. 1955)
• 1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)
• 1887 – Charles Reisner, American actor and director (d. 1962)
• 1888 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
• 1894 – Osa Johnson, American director and explorer (d. 1953)
• 1898 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
• 1899 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
• 1903 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010)
• 1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)
• 1908 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (d. 1991)
• 1908 – C. X. Martyn, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
• 1908 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, English businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (d. 1979)
• 1911 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2001)
• 1912 – W. Graham Claytor, Jr. American lawyer and navy officer, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Charles Van Acker, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
• 1912 – W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Horton Foote, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Max Shulman, American author (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 1921 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A
• 1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
• 1924 – Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (d. 2012)
• 1925 – William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman
• 1925 – Francis A. Marzen, American priest (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)
• 1926 – François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator
• 1926 – Phil Phillips, American singer-songwriter
• 1927 – Philippe Lemaire, French actor (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1928 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
• 1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and author
• 1933 – René Felber, Swiss politician
• 1933 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
• 1934 – Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1934 – Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army
• 1936 – Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
• 1937 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress
• 1939 – Raymond J. Barry, American actor
• 1939 – Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter
• 1939 – Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter
• 1939 – Stavros Xarchakos, Greek composer, conductor, and politician
• 1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Rita Tushingham, English actress
• 1943 – Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Ohio Players) (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Anita Morris, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1994)
• 1944 – Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor
• 1944 – Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager
• 1944 – Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager
• 1944 – Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Jasper Carrott, English comedian and actor
• 1945 – Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago)
• 1945 – Herman van Veen, Dutch singer-songwriter and actor
• 1946 – Steve Kanaly, American actor
• 1946 – Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1947 – Pam Ayres, English comedian, actor, and poet
• 1947 – Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (d. 1993)
• 1947 – William J. Jefferson, American politician
• 1947 – Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs and Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts)
• 1948 – Tom Coburn, American physician and politician
• 1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1948 – Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor
• 1949 – Helle Meri, Estonian actress, 2nd First Lady of Estonia
• 1950 – Rick Dees, American actor and radio host
• 1951 – Jerry Greenfield, American businessman, co-founded Ben & Jerry's
• 1953 – Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (The McCalmans) (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Jann Browne, American singer (Asleep at the Wheel)
• 1955 – Helen Atkinson-Wood, English actress
• 1955 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1956 – Colin Ayre, English footballer
• 1956 – Johnny Dusbaba, Dutch footballer
• 1956 – Toine Manders, Dutch politician
• 1956 – Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 – Steve Lake, American baseball player
• 1957 – Jean van de Velde, Dutch director and screenwriter
• 1957 – Tad Williams, American author
• 1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1959 – Laila Robins, American actress
• 1959 – Tamara Tunie, American actress, director, and producer
• 1959 – Brian Whitfield, South African cricketer
• 1960 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1961 – Greg Anderson, American race car driver
• 1961 – Gary Dell'Abate, American radio producer
• 1961 – Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
• 1961 – Hiro Matsushita, Japanese race car driver
• 1961 – Rey Washam, American drummer (Scratch Acid, The Didjits, Big Boys, and Rapeman)
• 1962 – Narumi Tsunoda, Japanese voice actress
• 1963 – Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
• 1964 – Dario Bisso, Italian conductor and composer
• 1965 – Kevin Brown, American baseball player
• 1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer
• 1965 – Kiana Tom, American actress, television host, and author
• 1965 – Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1965 – Billy Sherwood, American musician, record producer, and engineer
• 1966 – Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Elise Neal, American actress
• 1966 – Gary Anthony Williams, American actor
• 1967 – Melissa Reeves, American actress
• 1968 – Megan Follows, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Michael Bland, American drummer (The New Power Generation, Nick Jonas & the Administration, Dr. Mambo's Combo, and Soul Asylum)
• 1969 – Des Coleman, English actor
• 1969 – Larry Johnson, American basketball player
• 1970 – Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sugarland and Billy Pilgrim)
• 1970 – Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian runner
• 1970 – Meredith Salenger, American actress
• 1973 – Rohit Shetty, Indian actor, director, and cinematographer
• 1974 – Grace Park, American-Canadian actress
• 1974 – Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Stephen Harper, English footballer
• 1975 – Johan Paulik, Slovak porn actor
• 1975 – Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
• 1976 – Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor
• 1976 – Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1977 – Zé António, Portuguese footballer
• 1977 – Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach
• 1977 – Aki Hoshino, Japanese model and author
• 1977 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
• 1978 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
• 1978 – Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
• 1979 – Arsénio Sebastião Cabungula, Angolan footballer
• 1979 – Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler
• 1979 – Chris Klein, American actor
• 1979 – Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer
• 1980 – Aaron Brown, English footballer
• 1980 – Matteo Grassotto, Italian race car driver
• 1980 – Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Mercedes McNab, Canadian model and actress
• 1981 – Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
• 1981 – Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-American pianist
• 1981 – George Wilson, American football player
• 1982 – Kate Maberly, English actress and singer
• 1982 – Carlos Marinelli, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
• 1983 – Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
• 1983 – Taylor Hanson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Hanson and Tinted Windows)
• 1984 – Aric Almirola, American race car driver
• 1984 – Liesel Pritzker Simmons, American actress
• 1985 – Idaira, Spanish singer
• 1985 – Eva Angelina, American porn actress and model
• 1985 – Brianna Love, American porn actress
• 1985 – Ariel Rebel, Canadian porn actress and model
• 1986 – Jamie Bell, English actor
• 1986 – Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1986 – Andy Taylor, English footballer
• 1987 – Robert Clark, American actor
• 1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
• 1988 – Rico Freimuth, German decathlete
• 1988 – Sasha Grey, American porn actress and singer (ATelecine)
• 1989 – Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver
• 1989 – Colby O'Donis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1990 – Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
• 1990 – Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 – Triin Ojaste, Estonian skier
• 1990 – Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1991 – László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer
• 1991 – Steven Zellner, German footballer
• 1992 – Jasmine Murray, American singer
• 1993 – Philipp Ziereis, German footballer
• 1994 – Ansel Elgort, American actor

Deaths

• 313 – Emperor Huai of Jin (b. 284)
• 968 – Matilda of Ringelheim (b. 895)
• 1457 – Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
• 1471 – Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
• 1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• 1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
• 1680 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
• 1682 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
• 1696 – Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
• 1698 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish politician (b. 1622)
• 1748 – George Wade, Irish field marshal (b. 1673)
• 1757 – John Byng, English admiral (b. 1704)
• 1765 – Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. 1703)
• 1791 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)
• 1805 – Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Polish-Lithuanian general (b. 1753)
• 1811 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
• 1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
• 1823 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral (b. 1735)
• 1860 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802)
• 1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian financier and politician (b. 1827)
• 1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)
• 1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1933 – Balto, American sled dog (b. 1919)
• 1942 – René Bull, Irish illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1946 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1949 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American journalist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
• 1960 – Oliver Kirk, American boxer (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Clement Deykin, English rugby player (b. 1877)
• 1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist (b. 1900)
• 1973 – Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
• 1973 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Günther Reindorff, Estonian graphic designer (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1902)
• 1980 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)
• 1983 – Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (b. 1927)
• 1984 – Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Edward Abbey, American author and activist (b. 1927)
• 1989 – Happy Humphrey, American wrestler (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Margery Sharp, English author (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1999 – John Broome, American author (b. 1913)
• 2000 – C. Jérôme, French singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Altovise Davis, American actress and dancer (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Janet Simpson, English sprinter (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Ċensu Tabone, Maltese politician, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Walt Buck, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Norman Collier, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Scott Kennedy, American comedian (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr., American bishop (b. 1923)
• 2013 – François Narmon, Belgian businessman (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Thomas Rhoad, Jr., American politician (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Paul Rose, Canadian murderer (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, co-founded the Khmer Rouge (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Harry Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Leobinus
  • Matilda of Ringelheim
• Constitution Day (Andorra)
• Earliest day on which Lazarus Saturday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the day before Palm Sunday. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
• Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
• Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)
• Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism)
• Pi Day, also see July 22--"Pi Approximation Day"
• Second Equirria (Roman Empire)
• Spring Day (Albania)
• White Day, complementary day of Valentine's Day when men give gifts to women. (Japan and Korea)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 14.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada