वर्ल्डपीडिया:Selected anniversaries/March 14
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A cotton gin
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Eli Whitney
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Poster for The Mikado
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John Byng
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Catherine Cornaro
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1590 – French Wars of Religion: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne at the Battle of Ivry in Ivry, France. | refimprove section |
| 1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Royal Navy captured the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam in Ronas Voe, Shetland. | Only source citing date of 14 March is primary, article notes most secondary sources provide February, seems to be OR |
| 1794 – American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, the first machine to quickly and easily separate cotton fibers from their seedpods. | refimprove section |
| 1915 – First World War: British forces cornered and sank the SMS Dresden, the last remnant of the German East Asia Squadron, near the Chilean island of Más a Tierra. | refimprove |
| 1978 – Israeli–Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing PLO troops north up to the Litani River. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – LOT Flight 7 crashed during final approach to Warsaw's Okęcie International Airport, killing 87 people, including Polish singer Anna Jantar and a contingent of the amateur U.S. boxing team. | multiple issues |
| 1991 – The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings in England, were released after sixteen years in prison. | refimprove section |
| 1994 – Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel, was released, becoming one of the most prominent examples of open-source software. | update section |
| 1995 – Aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft, Norman Thagard became the first American to ride to space on a Russian vehicle. | refimprove, primary sources |
| 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet. | multiple issues |
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- 1489 – Catherine Cornaro (pictured), Queen of Cyprus, was forced to abdicate and sell the administration of the island to the Republic of Venice.
- 1593 – Japanese invasions of Korea: A force of 3,000 Korean soldiers successfully defended Haengju Fortress against 30,000 Japanese invaders.
- 1757 – Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad for failing to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
- 1885 – The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Born/died this day: | Matilda of Ringelheim |d|968| John Sigismund Zápolya |d|1571| George Wade |d|1748|Charles Ammi Cutter |b|1837| Ferdinand Hodler |b|1853| Thomas R. Marshall |b|1854| Karl Marx |d|1883|Phil Vincent |b|1908| S. Truett Cathy |b|1921| Diane Arbus |b|1923| Frank Borman |b|1928| Lies Noor |d|1961| Fannie Lou Hamer |d|1977| Anas Sarwar |b|1983| Jessica Gallagher |b|1986| | Stephen Curry|b|1988| Tony Benn |d|2014| Marielle Franco|d|2018|
Notes
- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1982) appears on February 27, so the Mikado should not appear in the same year
March 14: Sikh New Year's Day; White Day in parts of East Asia; Purim (Judaism, 2025); Pi Day
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
- 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.
- 1864 – The Petite messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini (pictured) was first performed in Paris, 34 years after his retirement as a composer.
- 1931 – Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, premiered at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay.
- 1988 – China defeated Vietnam in a naval altercation while attempting to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly Islands.
- 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.
- Albert Einstein (b. 1879)
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)
- Piri (b. 1999)
- Ieng Sary (d. 2013)
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