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What happened in history on this day: March 14?
On March 14 in ...
- 1812 - Congress authorizes notes bearing 6 percent interest to finance impending war with Great Britain.
- 1862 - Battle of New Bern, North Carolina: US General Ambrose Burnside conquers New Bern.
- 1864 - US troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana.
- 1900 - US Congress passes the Gold Standard Act, fixing gold value of dollar at 25.8 grains, 0.900 fine as standard unit of money of the US.
- 1903 - First US national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida.
- 1913 - John D Rockefeller gives US$100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.
- 1918 - First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, in San Francisco, California.
- 1923 - US President Warren G Harding becomes first President filing income tax report and paying taxes.
- 1931 - First theater built for rear movie projection (New York City, New York).
- 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation.
- 1936 - Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue.
- 1936 - In Red Bank, New Jersey, USA, a meteorite crashes through a shed roof.
- 1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas, USA.
- 1950 - American FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
- 1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul.
- 1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certifies the first gold (1 million sales) record: Perry Como's "Catch a Falling Star" on RCA Victor Records.
- 1960 - Fourteen die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California, USA.
- 1964 - Dallas, Texas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for Lee Harvey Oswald murder.
- 1967 - The late US President John Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.
- 1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1978 - US Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (one dead).
- 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
- 1980 - US President Jimmy Carter signs law abolishing the coin Assay Commission.
- 1985 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins four awards.
- 1989 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States.
- 1989 - Stack's auctions a $1000 US Treasury note for US$100,000, a record price for paper money.
- 1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson.
- 1992 - Steven Brian Pennell is first execution in Delaware in 45 years, at age 34.
- 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.
- 1995 - Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 1997 - President Bill Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery.
- 2002 - 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile-up on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia, USA.
- 2006 - Washington D.C. officials unveil the designs for a new 41,000-seat ballpark.
- 2009 - A copy of the first Superman comic (Action Comics, Number 1, June 1938) sells at an auction for US$317,200.
- 2018 - In response to gun violence in the United States, and particularly triggered by the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, thousands of high school students across the country participate in an organized protest they call the National School Walkout.
- 2020 - The US Centers for Disease Control issues a no-sail order for cruise ships in US waters.
- 2022 - Maryland removes its last public Confederate statue, not including those in cemeteries and battlefields.
Births on March 14
- 1816 - Birth of Montgomery Dent Corse in Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1895).
- 1874 - Birth of Mary Carr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles).
- 1911 - Birth of Pete Piute [Morris Kaufman] in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Village Barn).
- 1912 - Birth of Les Brown in Reinerton, Pennsylvania, USA; bandleader (Band of Renown, Bob Hope, "Sentimental Journey", "My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time", "Leap Frog", "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), musical director (Dean Martin).
- 1918 - Birth of Dennis Patrick AKA Dennis Patrick Harrison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Laramie, Somerset, Dallas, Rituals, War and Remembrance, Dark Shadows, Dear Dead Delilah).
- 1919 - Birth of Luther Henderson Junior in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; orchestra leader/arranger (50+ Broadway shows, arranged 100+ songs for The Canadian Brass, Duke Ellington, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Polly Bergen Show).
- 1928 - Birth of Frank Borman in Gary, Indiana, USA; astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), CEO (Eastern Airlines).
- 1933 - Birth of Quincy Jones Junior in Chicago, Illinois, USA; jazz and rhythm and blues producer/composer/singer ("We Are The World").
- 1934 - Birth of Eugene A Cernan in Chicago, Illinois, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17).
- 1939 - Birth of William Benjamin Lenoir in Miami, Florida, USA; astronaut (STS-5).
- 1942 - Birth of Jerry Jeff Walker in Oneonta, New York, USA; country singer ("Mr Bojangles").
- 1943 - Birth of Jim Pons in Santa Monica, California, USA; bassist (Turtles - "Happy Together").
- 1945 - Birth of Michael Martin Murphey in Dallas, Texas, USA; country singer ("Wildfire").
- 1945 - Birth of Walter Parazaider in Chicago, Illinois, USA; rock saxophonist (Chicago - "If You Leave Me Now").
- 1946 - Birth of Steve Kanaly in Burbank, California, USA; actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs - Dallas, All My Children).
- 1947 - Birth of Billy Crystal in Long Beach, New York, USA; actor/comedian (Soap, Saturday Night Live, City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally).
- 1961 - Birth of Gary Dell'Abate in Uniondale, Long Island, New York, USA; producer (Howard Stern Show, Private Parts).
- 1965 - Birth of Kevin Brown in Mcintyre, Georgia, USA; pitcher (Florida Marlins).
- 1967 - Birth of Edward M Fincke in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Captain US Air Force/astronaut.
- 1967 - Birth of Melissa Brennan Reeves in Eatontown, New Jersey, USA; actress (Jennifer - Days of Our Lives).
- 1969 - Birth of Ty[rel] Bennion in Seattle, Washington, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Aris Brimanis in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers).
- 1983 - Birth of Jordan Taylor Hanson in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; singer-keyboardist (Hanson - "MMMBop").
Deaths on March 14
- 1918 - Death of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield in Pasadena, California, USA; spouse of US President James Garfield.
- 1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at age 65.
- 1932 - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), commits suicide at age 77.
- 1968 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies.
- 1973 - Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at age 72.
- 1976 - Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/director (Strike Up the Band), dies at age 80.
- 1986 - Death of Edith Atwater from cancer at age 74; actress (Peyton Place, Phyllis - Love on a Rooftop, Kaz, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries).
- 1989 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist, dies after surgery at age 62 (born 1927).
- 1991 - Howard Ashman, American song writer ("Under the Sea"), dies of AIDS at 40 (born 1950).
- 1991 - Death of Jerome "Doc" Pomus at age 65; American songwriter ("A Teenager in Love", "Save The Last Dance For Me", "Can't Get Used to Losing You", "Little Sister", "Suspicion", "Surrender", "Viva Las Vegas").
- 1992 - Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood Junior of cancer at age 71; theme park developer, first Disneyland general manager up to opening day, Freedomland U.S.A. in New York 1960-64.
- 1995 - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro-physicist (Nobel Prize 1983), dies at age 83 (born 1911).
- 1997 - Death of Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American director (High Noon (1952), From here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma (1955), A Man for all Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Five Days one Summer (1982)), at age 69 of a heart attack (born 1907).
- 2022 - Death of Stephen E. Wilhite at age 74 from COVID-19 complications in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; computer programmer (invented GIF image format).
- 2022 - Death of Scott Hall at age 63 of complications from hip replacement surgery in Georgia hospital, USA; wrestler (WWE Hall of Fame).
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