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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 14
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Anton F Philips; president-director of Philips.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Mary Carr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Eugene A Cernan in Chicago, Illinois, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Shirley Scott; swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jann Browne; country singer ("Mexican Wind").
- 70th: 1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Henry Aaron homers in his first exhibition game.
- 70th: 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
- 70th: 1954 - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32-game road losing streak.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Donald Evans; NFL defensive end/tackle (New York Jets).
- 60th: 1964 - Dallas, Texas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Justine Joyce; Australian rower (Olympics-1996).
- 40th: 1984 - Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and three others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.
- 40th: 1984 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at age 75.
- 30th: 1994 - The NBC TV network begins airing Disney's Someone Like Me show.
- 30th: 1994 - Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 30th: 1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu is kidnapped.
- 30th: 1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard.
- 30th: 1994 - Apple Computer introduces its first Power Macintosh computers, featuring 60 to 80 MHz PowerPC processors. Apple successfully managed a major processor transformation, without losing significant market share.
- 20th: 2004 - Two suicide bombers kill eleven Israeli civilians in Ashdod, Israel.
- 20th: 2004 - Spanish legislative election: The incumbent government led by José María Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- 20th: 2004 - Russian presidential election: Vladimir Putin easily wins a second term.
- 15th: 2009 - Annamay Pierse of Canada sets a new world's record in the women's 200-metre breaststroke swimming event, recording 2:17.50 at the short-course swimming championships in Toronto, Ontario.
- 15th: 2009 - A copy of the first Superman comic (Action Comics, Number 1, June 1938) sells at an auction for US$317,200.
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