14 Mairch

The 14t o Mairch is the 73d day o the year (74t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 292 days ti come.

• 1800 - Pape Pius VII is electit.
• 1888 - A snawstorm in the Eastren Unitit States kills ower 4,000 fowk.
• 1905 - Chelsea F.C. is foondit.
• 1939 - German troops occupy Bohemie an Moravie in Czechoslovakie in the run-up tae Warld War II.
• 1941 - Warld War II: In the nicht frae 13 Mairch, the German Luftwaffe bombs the Scots toun o Clydebank.
• 1951 - Unitit Naitions troops captur Seoul for a 2nt time during the Korean War.
• 1993 - Andorrae's new constitution is adoptit in a referendum.
• 1997 - The ceety o Chongqing comes unner the control o the govrenment o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an becomes the warld's lairgest ceety bi aurie.
• 2002 - Stirlin, Scotland, is awairdit ceety status.
• 2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-electit as Preses o Roushie.
• 2012 - Pairth, Scotland, regains its ceety status.
• 2015 - Cyclone Pam hits Vanuatu.
• 2018 - Angela Merkel is sworn in for her 4t term in affice as Chancellor o Germany.
• 2018 - The Unitit Kinrick expels 23 Roushie diplomats in a poleetical row ower the poisonin o umwhile spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
• 2019 - The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick votes tae extend the Brexit process beyond 29 Mairch.
• 2019 - Cyclone Idai maks landfaw in Mozambique, possibly killin up tae 1,000 fowk.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Several kintras in Africae record thair first cases - Central African Republic, Republic o the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Mauritanie, Namibie, Rwanda an the Seychelles.

• 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German componer (d. 1767)
• 1804 - Johann Strauss I, Austrick componer (d. 1849)
• 1820 - Victor Emmanuel II o Italy (d. 1878)
• 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1844 - Umberto I o Italy (d. 1900)
• 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German physeecian an scientist (d. 1915)
• 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical pheesicist (d. 1955)
• 1908 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (d. 1961)
• 1909 - William Montgomery Watt, Scots historian (d. 2006)
• 1911 - Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origami airtist (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Dawson Walker, Scots fitbaw manager (d. 1973)
• 1928 - Frank Borman, American astronaut
• 1930 - Hugh Baird, Scots fitbawer (d. 2006)
• 1933 - Michael Caine, Inglis actor
• 1933 - Quincy Jones, American muisicker an componer
• 1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017)
• 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
• 1948 - Billy Crystal, American actor an comedian
• 1958 - Albert II, Prince o Monaco
• 1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor an director
• 1971 - James Grady, Scots ftbawer
• 1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French fitbawer
• 1983 - Anas Sarwar, Scots politeecian
• 1985 - Ian Black, Scots fitbawer
• 1986 - Jamie Bell, Inglis actor
• 1988 - Stephen Curry, American basketbaw player
• 1996 - Ryan Williamson, Scots fitbawer
• 1997 - Simone Biles, American gymnast

• 1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke o Grafton, Breetish Prime meenister (b. 1735)
• 1830 - Henry Bell, Scots ingineer (b. 1767)
• 1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (b. 1818)
• 1925 - Walter Camp, American sports pioneer (b. 1859)
• 1932 - George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)
• 1953 - Klement Gottwald, Czech politeecian (b. 1896)
• 1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American pheesicist (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origami airtist (b. 1911)
• 2006 - Lennart Meri, Preses o Estonie (b. 1929)
• 2010 - Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2014 - Tony Benn, Inglis politeecian (b. 1925)
• 2016 - Peter Maxwell Davies, Inglis componer (b. 1934)
• 2018 - Stephen Hawking, Inglis theoretical pheesicist an cosmologist (b. 1942)

• 14 Mairch is the feast day o the follaein saunts:

St. Matilda

St. Mathilda

Bl. Ambrose Fernandez

St. Boniface Curitan

St. Diaconus

Bl. Dominic Jorjes

Mairytrs o Valeria

• Pi Day
• Mither Tongue Day (Estonie)
• White Day in pairts o East Asie