March 14 in History

Historical Events on March 14

1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.

1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

1943 World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".

1945 World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.

1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1978 The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.

1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

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Famous Birthdays on March 14

1879 Albert Einstein

1965 Aamir Khan

1988 Stephen Curry

1997 Simone Biles

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Famous Deaths on March 14

1823 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

1877 Juan Manuel de Rosas

1883 Karl Marx

2014 Tony Benn

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