On this day in History - Mar. 14

• 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
• 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1630 - Fallece en Tiberíades, Isaiah ben Abraham Ha-Levi Horowitz (Shelaj Hakadosh), n.c.1565 en Praga. Rabbi, cabalista, escribió "Shnei Lujot Habrith".
• 1647 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767) .
• 1743 - Em Lisboa, foi preso o maçónico Jean Coustor .
• 1757 - John Byng, dies, Admiral .
• 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.
• 1800 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII .
• 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849).
• 1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1892).
• 1820 - Vítor Emanuel II, rei de Itália.
• 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, was born, Italian astronomer (d. 1910) .
• 1843 - O general Dumouriez morre. Esteve em Lisboa em 1766 tendo deixado uma descrição do país que não visitou, que fez muito sucesso na Europa e mais tarde em Portugal .
• 1844 - Humberto I, nasce, rei de Itália.
• 1847 - Castro Alves, nascimento de, poeta brasileiro (Espumas Flutuantes) .
• 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, was born, Swiss painter (d. 1918) .
• 1854 - Paul Ehrlich,was born, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 (d. 1915) .
• 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, was born, British writer (d. 1951) .
• 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.
• 1877 - Fallece Juan Manuel de Rosas, gobernante argentino.
• 1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (d. 18 Apr 1955) .
• 1880 - Francisco Antonio Vidal asume la presidencia de la República de Uruguay
• 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969).
• 1883- Karl Marx, dies, political theorist and philosopher (b. 1818).
• 1885 - Raoul Lufbery, World War I American flying ace (d. 1918) .
• 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American expatriate publisher (d. 1962).
• 1889 - Nace Arturo Capdevila, poeta e historiador argentino.
• 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 Columbian Senate would later reject the treaty.
• 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues an executive order making Pelican Island, in Florida, a “preserve and breeding ground for native birds,” marking the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
• 1903- Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party, (d. 1979).
• 1905 - Raymond Aron, filósofo e sociólogo francês (m. 1983).
• 1905 - Chelsea Football Club was founded at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook) opposite today's main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road;
• 1911- Portugal: Lei eleitoral da República. Alargou substancialmente o sufrágio, mas ficou muito aquém do sufrágio universal defendido e prometido pelo Partido Republicano.
• 1912 - Les Brown, was born, band leader (d. 2001) .
• 1914 - Bill Owen, was born . British actor (d. 1999) .
• 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
• 1916 - Horton Foote, was born. American writer .
• 1918 - Dennis Patrick,was born. American actor .
• 1920 - Hank Ketcham, was born, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001) .
• 1923 - Pete Parker does the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
• 1926 - Carlos Heitor Cony, nasce, escritor e jornalista brasileiro .
• 1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and former Eastern Airlines president.
• 1932 - George Eastman, dies, inventor (b. 1854).
• 1933 - Michael Caine, was born. British actor.
• 1933 - Quincy Jones,was born, music producer, composer .
• 1934 - Eugene Cernan,was born, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, last human to leave his footprints on the moon .
• 1937 - O Vaticano realizou a encíclica Divini Redemptoris.
• 1938 - Um dos mais importantes líderes e teórico da Revolução Soviética, Nikolai Bukharin, é executado a mando de Josef Stalin, após ter sido acusado de “espionar” em favor das potências ocidentais.
• 1939 - The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia.
• 1941- Wolfgang Petersen, was born. German director, Das Boot .
• 1945 - Jasper Carrot (born Bob Davies), British comedian .
• 1946 - Steve Kanaly, was born, actor .
• 1947 - Pam Ayres, was born. British poet.
• 1947 - Billy Crystal, was born, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA. Actor, comedian.
• 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
• 1958 - Prince Albert of Monaco was born.
• 1961 - Kirby Puckett, was born, baseball player .
• 1963 - Bruce Reid,was born Australian cricketer .
• 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1965 - Kevin Brown, American baseball player.
• 1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter.
• 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1973 - Rafael Godoy, dies, Colombian composer (b. 1907).
• 1973 - Chic Young, dies, cartoonist (Blondie) (b. 1901).
• 1973 - Howard H. Aiken, dies, engineer (b. 1900) .
• 1975 - Em Portugal, foram extintos o Conselho de Estado e a Junta de Salvação Nacional .
• 1975 - Susan Hayward, dies, actress (b. 1917) .
• 1976 - Busby Berkeley, dies, choreographer, director (b. 1895).
• 1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, dies, American civil rights activist (b. 1917) .
• 1978 - The Israeli Defense Force, in retaliation for a terrorist attack three days earlier, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, under codename Operation Litani, resulting in the evacuation of at least 100,000 Lebanese, approximately 2,000 deaths, as well as the creation of United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon (UNIFIL).
• 1979 - In China, a Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
• 1980 - Muere en accidente de aviación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente.
• 1983 - Taylor Hanson, was born, musician in the group Hanson, record producer .
• 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in in central Belfast.
• 1985 - Bill Cosby captured four People’s Choice Awards for "The Cosby Show".
• 1986 - Jamie Bell, was born, British actor .
• 1989 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of assault rifles into the United States.
• 1990 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
• 1991 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
• 1991 - Doc Pomus, dies, composer (b. 1925) .
• 1991 - Howard Ashman, dies, lyricist (b. 1950) .
• 1993 - Andorra aprueba su nueva Constitución.
• 1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
• 1996 - American President Bill Clinton commits $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists.
• 1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
• 1997 - Fred Zinnemann,dies, director (b. 1907) .
• 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
• 1999 - Gregg Diamond, morre, pianista, percussionista, compositor e produtor.
• 2002 - Cherry Wilder, dies, author (b. 1930) .
• 2003 - Jack Goldstein, dies, artist (b. 1945) .
• 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, dies, publisher (b. 1928) .
• 2004 - Pope John Paul II becomes the second-longest serving pope in history.
• 2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia, while the PSOE wins elections in Spain just days after terrorist attacks in Madrid.