14 March
Notable Births
Abby Ryder Fortson
b. 2008
American actress (born 2008)
Nico Mannion
b. 2001
Italian-American basketball player (born 2001)
Jihoon
b. 2000
South Korean singer (born 2000)
Marvin Bagley III
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Olivia Dean
b. 1999
British singer and songwriter (born 1999)
Tyson Jost
b. 1998
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Simone Biles
b. 1997
American artistic gymnast (born 1997)
Batuhan Altıntaş (footballer)
b. 1996
Turkish footballer
Brandon Aubrey
b. 1995
American football and soccer player (born 1995)
Nick Eh 30
b. 1995
Canadian streamer and YouTuber (born 1995)
Ansel Elgort
b. 1994
American actor and singer (born 1994)
Anthony Bennett (basketball)
b. 1993
Canadian basketball player (born 1993)
J. T. Miller
b. 1993
American ice hockey player (born 1993)
Shotzi Blackheart
b. 1992
American professional wrestler
Erik Gustafsson (ice hockey, born 1992)
b. 1992
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Emir Bekrić
b. 1991
Serbian hurdler
Joe Allen
b. 1990
Welsh footballer (born 1990)
Tamás Kádár
b. 1990
Hungarian footballer (born 1990)
Haru Kuroki
b. 1990
Japanese actress (born 1990)
Albert Einstein
b. 1879
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Notable Deaths
Alan Simpson (American politician)
d. 2025
American politician (1931–2025)
Scott Hall
d. 2022
American professional wrestler (1958–2022)
Jake Phelps
d. 2019
American skateboarder and magazine editor (1962–2019)
Charlie Whiting
d. 2019
Formula One race director (1952–2019)
Jim Bowen
d. 2018
English comedian and television personality (1937–2018)
Marielle Franco
d. 2018
Brazilian politician and activist (1979–2018)
Stephen Hawking
d. 2018
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
Liam O'Flynn
d. 2018
Irish musical artist (1945–2018)
John W. Cahn
d. 2016
American scientist (1928–2016)
Peter Maxwell Davies
d. 2016
English composer and conductor (1934–2016)
Suranimala Rajapaksha
d. 2016
Sri Lankan politician
Tony Benn
d. 2014
British politician and activist (1925–2014)
Jack Greene
d. 2013
American country music singer-songwriter (1930–2013)
Aramais Sahakyan
d. 2013
Armenian poet, humorist, publicist and translator
Ieng Sary
d. 2013
Cambodian politician and war criminal (1925–2013)
Pierre Schoendoerffer
d. 2012
French film director (1928–2012)
Ċensu Tabone
d. 2012
President of Malta from 1989 to 1994
Peter Graves
d. 2010
American actor (1926–2010)
Chiara Lubich
d. 2008
Italian teacher and founder of the Focolare Movement
Karl Marx
d. 1883
German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)
On This Day in History
All 42 ›2021
Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
Hlaingthaya massacre
2019
Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
Cyclone Idai
2017
A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
Nihonium
2008
A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
2008 Tibetan unrest
2007
The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
Nandigram violence
2006
The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
2006 Chadian coup attempt
2006
Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat.
Operation Bringing Home the Goods
1995
Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
Norman Thagard
1991
Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert – which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine – is officially inaugurated.
Escondida
1988
In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
Johnson South Reef skirmish
1982
The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London
1980
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007
1979
Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600
1978
The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
Israel Defense Forces
1972
Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
Sterling Airways Flight 296
1967
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
John F. Kennedy
1964
Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
Jack Ruby
1961
A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.
United States Air Force
1951
Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
Korean War
1945
The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
Royal Air Force