Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14
This is a list of selected March 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Theatrical poster for "The Mikado"
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1590 – French Wars of Religion: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne at the Battle of Ivry in Ivry, France. | Tagged with {{nofootnotes}} |
| 1978 – Israeli-Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing PLO troops north up to the Litani River. | Tagged with {{more footnotes}} |
| 1980 – LOT Flight 7 crashed during final approach to Warsaw's Okęcie International Airport, killing 87 people, including Polish singer Anna Jantar and a contingent of the amateur U.S. boxing team. | refimprove |
| 1994 – Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel, was released, becoming one of the most prominent examples of open source software. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – Aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft, Norman Thagard became the first American to ride to space on a Russian vehicle. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1757 – British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad for breaching the Articles of War when he failed to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
- 1885 – The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy Opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
- 1915 – First World War: British forces cornered and sank the SMS Dresden, the last remnant of the German East Asia Squadron, near the Chilean island of Más a Tierra.
- 1937 – Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, condemning antisemitism, criticizing Nazism, listing breaches of an agreement signed with the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1945 – The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb (9.98 t) earth quake bomb, on a strategic railroad viaduct in Bielefeld, Germany.
- 1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland]].
- 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
March 14: New Year's Day (Sikhs); White Day in Japan; Pi Day
- 1489 – Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro (pictured) was forced to abdicate and sell the administration of the island to the Republic of Venice.
- 1794 – American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, the first ever machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seedpods.
- 1910 – Oil prospectors in Kern County, California, drilled into a pressurized oil deposit, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill in history.
- 1931 – Alam Ara, the first Indian film with sound, was released.
- 1991 – The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings in England, were released after sixteen years in prison.