March 14
44 BC
Casca and
Cassius decide, on the night before the
Assassination of Julius Caesar, that
Mark Antony should live.
1663
Otto von Guericke completes his book on
Vacuum.
1757 Admiral Sir
John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard
HMS Monarch for breach of the
Articles of War.
1794
Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the
cotton gin.
1885
The Mikado, a light opera by
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 The
Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the
gold standard.
1903 The
HayHerrαn 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
The Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1936 The first all-sound film version of
Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.
1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using
penicillin.
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.
1994
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.
Births
1804 Johann Strauss I♪ ♫, 1863 Casey Jones, 1874 Anton Philips (co-founded Philips Electronics), 1879 Albert Einstein, 1912 Les Brown♪ ♫, 1914 Lee Petty

, 1916 Horton Foote, 1920 Hank Ketcham (created Dennis the Menace), 1921 S. Truett Cathy (founded Chick-fil-A), 1921 Ada Louise Huxtable, 1923 Diane Arbus, 1925 William Clay Ford, Sr., 1928 Frank Borman, 1933 Michael Caine, 1933 Quincy Jones♪ ♫, 1934 Eugene Cernan, 1939 Raymond J. Barry, 1941 Wolfgang Petersen, 1945 Michael Martin Murphey♪ ♫, 1948 Billy Crystal, 1950 Rick Dees♪ ♫, 1951 Jerry Greenfield (co-founded Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream), 1958 Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 1959 Steve Byrnes (racing reporter), 1961 Gary Dell'Abate ('Baba Booey'), 1961 Penny Johnson Jerald (' Kasidy Yates' on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), 1961 Mike Lazaridis (founded BlackBerry Limited), 1965 Billy Sherwood♪ ♫(Yes), 1968 Megan Follows (
Anne of Green Gables), 1979 Chris Klein, 1983 Taylor Hanson♪ ♫(Hanson), 1984 Aric Almirola

, 1986 Jamie Bell, 1988 Stephen Curry, 1988 Sasha Grey




, 1997 Simone Biles
Deaths
1757 John Byng, 1883 Karl Marx, 1932 George Eastman (founded Eastman Kodak), 1973 Chic Young (created comic strip
Blondie), 1975 Susan Hayward, 1976 Busby Berkeley, 2010 Peter Graves, 2013 Jack Greene♪ ♫