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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Events

• 44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
• 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 Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.
• 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 I 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 – 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1961 – USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca.
• 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 Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
• 1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.
• 1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• 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

• 1415 – Wilhelm II, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1444)
• 1418 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1492)
• 1473 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1512)
• 1576 – Eric of Lorraine, Bishop of Verdun (d. 1623)
• 1638 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
• 1665 – Giuseppe Crespi, Italian painter (d. 1747)
• 1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (d. 1767)
• 1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
• 1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874)
• 1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)
• 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1849)
• 1813 – Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and 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 and critic (d. 1891)
• 1833 – Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
• 1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (d. 1910)
• 1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)
• 1836 - Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (d. 1865)
• 1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
• 1844 – Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881)
• 1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
• 1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, 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 lawyer and 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 and playwright (d. 1951)
• 1874 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (d. 1951)
• 1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1880 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
• 1885 – Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
• 1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Osa Johnson, American director and explorer (d. 1953)
• 1898 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (d. 1954)
• 1899 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)
• 1901 – Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010)
• 1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)
• 1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (d. 1961)
• 1908 – Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and 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 lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)
• 1912 – W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Dennis Patrick, American actor and director (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (d. 2014)
• 1921 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1922 – China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
• 1925 – William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)
• 1926 – François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator
• 1928 – Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1928 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Bob Goalby, American golfer
• 1932 – Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
• 1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and author
• 1933 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
• 1934 – Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army
• 1936 – Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
• 1937 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter
• 1938 – Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (d. 2016)
• 1938 – John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (d. 2016)
• 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
• 1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Rita Tushingham, English actress
• 1943 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (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, actor, and game show host
• 1945 – Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist
• 1946 – William Lerach, American securities, class action attorney
• 1946 – Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1947 – Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (d. 1993)
• 1947 – William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician
• 1947 – Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1948 – Tom Coburn, American physician and politician
• 1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor
• 1950 – Rick Dees, American actor and radio host
• 1951 – Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's
• 1953 – Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1955 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1956 – Sean Mathias, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 – Jean van de Velde, Dutch director and screenwriter
• 1957 – Tad Williams, American author
• 1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1958 – Francine Stock, English journalist and author
• 1959 – Steve Byrnes, American sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
• 1959 – Laila Robins, American actress
• 1959 – Tamara Tunie, American actress
• 1960 – Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic
• 1961 – Garry Jack, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1961 – Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
• 1961 – Mike Lazaridis, Turkish–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited
• 1961 – Hiro Matsushita, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Andrew Fleming, American director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1964 – Dario Bisso Sabàdin, Italian conductor and composer
• 1965 – Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach
• 1965 – Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director
• 1965 – Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1965 – Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Elise Neal, American actress and producer
• 1966 – Gary Anthony Williams, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Jeremy Baumberg FRS Professor of Nanoscience at the University of Cambridge
• 1968 – Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress
• 1968 – James Frain, English actor
• 1968 – Serena Rees, English businesswoman, co-founded Agent Provocateur
• 1969 – Michael Bland, American drummer and producer
• 1969 – Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor
• 1970 – Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – Charlie Elphicke, English lawyer and politician
• 1972 – Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist
• 1974 – Ben Kennedy, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Santino Marella, Canadian-American wrestler and actor
• 1974 – Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Rushanara Ali, Bangladeshi-English politician
• 1975 – Steve Harper, English footballer and referee
• 1975 – Dmitri Markov, Belorussian-Australian pole vaulter
• 1976 – Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach
• 1977 – Aki Hoshino, Japanese model and author
• 1977 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
• 1977 – Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player
• 1978 – Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager
• 1979 – Chris Klein, American actor
• 1979 – Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer
• 1980 – Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach
• 1980 – Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 – Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
• 1981 – George Wilson, American football player
• 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
• 1983 – Anas Sarwar, Scottish dentist and politician
• 1984 – Aric Almirola, American race car driver
• 1984 – Liesel Pritzker Simmons, American actress and philanthropist
• 1986 – Jamie Bell, English actor and dancer
• 1986 – Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1986 – Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist
• 1986 – Andy Taylor, English footballer
• 1987 – Robert Clark, American actor
• 1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
• 1988 – Rico Freimuth, German decathlete
• 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 – Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress
• 1990 – Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1991 – Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler
• 1991 – Pat O'Hanlon, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer
• 1991 – Steven Zellner, German footballer
• 1993 – Philipp Ziereis, German footballer
• 1994 – Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ
• 1996 – Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer
• 1997 – Simone Biles, American gymnast

Deaths

• 313 – Emperor Huai of Jin (b. 284)
• 557 – Leobinus, bishop of Chartres
• 757 – Li Lin, prince of the Tang dynasty
• 840 – Einhard, Frankish scholar
• 968 – Matilda of Ringelheim, Frankish queen and saint (b. 895)
• 1397 – Henry VIII the Sparrow, Duke of Żagań–Głogów (b.c. 1357)
• 1457 – The Jingtai Emperor, ruler of Ming China (b. 1428)
• 1471 – Thomas Malory, English author and politician (b. 1405)
• 1555 – John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
• 1571 – John Sigismund Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1540)
• 1632 – Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (b. 1579)
• 1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• 1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
• 1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)
• 1696 – Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1625)
• 1748 – George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1673)
• 1757 – John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (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 academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
• 1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1739)
• 1823 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (b. 1735)
• 1860 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802)
• 1877 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1793)
• 1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (b. 1827)
• 1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)
• 1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1942 – René Bull, Irish lieutenant and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1946 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1949 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American journalist and politician, 17th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
• 1965 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister 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)
• 1991 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Margery Sharp, English author (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1999 – John Broome, American author (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Gary Burger, American singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (b. 1948)
• 2016 – John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Curetán (or Boniface)
  • Leobinus
  • Matilda of Ringelheim
  • March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• 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, see July 22
• 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