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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: General Burnside conquers New Bern.
- 1864 - Union 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 - RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star").
- 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.
Births on March 14
- 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; orchestra leader (and his band of renown).
- 1918 - Birth of Dennis Patrick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals).
- 1919 - Birth of Luther Henderson Jr in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; orchestra leader (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 Jr in Chicago, Illinois, USA; jazz and R&B 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).
- 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-Hanson (MMMBop).
- 1992 - Birth of Keaton Tyndall, American actress.
- 1992 - Birth of Kylie Tyndall, American actress.
- 1994 - Birth of Frankie Ryan Manriquez, American actor.
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.
- 1969 - Ben Shahn, US painter, dies at age 70.
- 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 - Edith Atwater, of Chicago, Illinois, actress (Phyllis - Love on a Rooftop), dies at age 74.
- 1989 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist, dies after surgery at age 62 (born 1927).
- 1989 - Death of Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (born 1900).
- 1991 - Howard Ashman, American song writer ("Under the Sea"), dies of AIDS at 40 (born 1950).
- 1991 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, American lyricist ("Save Last Dance for Me"), dies at 65 (born 1925).
- 1992 - Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood Jr 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).
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