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Events from History on March 14

1558 : Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 : Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
1590 : Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
1629 : England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 : England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1653 : Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 : Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1734 : Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1743 : 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1794 : Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
1800 : Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1812 : Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 : African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1826 : General Congress of South American States assembles at Panam
1836 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1840 : Jos‚ Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid
1843 : Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1845 : -5.3øF (-20.7øC) in Groningen
1862 : Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 : Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris
1864 : Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1870 : Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1875 : Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres
1885 : "Mikado" opera premieres in London
1885 : Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado," premieres in London
1888 : 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889 : August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen
1896 : Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
1900 : Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 : US currency goes on gold standard
1901 : 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1903 : 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1903 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
1903 : WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin
1906 : Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
1908 : Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
1909 : Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1912 : King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1913 : John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1914 : Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 : German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1916 : Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1918 : 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
1922 : KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 : KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 : WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 : Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galici‰ in Poland
1923 : German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923 : Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes
1931 : 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 : Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1933 : Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1935 : 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1936 : Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US govt, publishes 1st issue
1937 : Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937 : Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 : England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 : Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 : 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides
1940 : with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1941 : Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 : Xavier Cugat & Orch record "Babalu"
1945 : RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1946 : Belgian govt of Spaak, forms
1948 : Freedom Train arrives in SF
1950 : FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 : During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1951 : Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1953 : KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 : Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party
1954 : Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
1954 : KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
1955 : Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 : Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 : Indonesian govt of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 : RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 : Recording Industry Association of American created
1958 : South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 : USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 : 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
1961 : George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets
1962 : Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1964 : "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs
1964 : Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 : Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 : 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 : JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 : CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE
1968 : POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1968 : doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1969 : Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 : Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ
1971 : Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 : Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
1971 : South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 : The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1973 : Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 : Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 : Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 : NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1980 : 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 : Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1980 : Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 : Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 : Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1982 : Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 : OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 : Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1985 : 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 : Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 : European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 : NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during
1987 : Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 : Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 : Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1987 : spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1990 : 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 : Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 : British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly
1991 : Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 : Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 : Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
1991 : Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1991 : sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1992 : Farm Aid V
1992 : NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 : Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 : "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs
1993 : "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 : "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 : 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 : Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 : Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 : Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1994 : Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 : Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1995 : 1st time 13 people in space
1996 : Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 : 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 : Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 : Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 : Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery

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