WillDekkard
03-14-2010, 04:17 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 14th
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* 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
* 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
* 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
* 1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.
* 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
* 1869 Defeat of Titokowaru.
* 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
* 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
* 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
* 1915 World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
* 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
* 1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
* 1943 World War II The Krakσw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
* 1945 World War II The R.A.F. 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, Texas find Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
* 1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
* 1978 The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
* 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
* 1980 In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
* 1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fιin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
* 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
* 1995 Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
* 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
* 2005 Cedar Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government.
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- March 14th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
* 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
* 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
* 1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.
* 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
* 1869 Defeat of Titokowaru.
* 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
* 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
* 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
* 1915 World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
* 1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
* 1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
* 1943 World War II The Krakσw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
* 1945 World War II The R.A.F. 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, Texas find Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
* 1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
* 1978 The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
* 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
* 1980 In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
* 1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fιin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
* 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
* 1995 Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
* 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
* 2005 Cedar Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government.
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