Today In History - March 14

483 St. Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pop
607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 Cortez lands in Mexico
1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1634 Academe Franeaise opens
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 Cherubini's opera "Medee," premieres in Paris
1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Konigsberg
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 U.S. adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1922 George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in New York City
1922 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions
1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St. Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1924 German Republic day
1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in New York City
1929 Bradman scores 123 Aust vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1944 U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 581 performances
1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 605 performances
1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St. New York City
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1981 NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins and 3 secs
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S.
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east U.S.
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP
1994 Cuba Godding, Jr. (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

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