What happened on March 14?

Answer 1

1997 - 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch

1997 - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80

1997 - Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E. Sullivan Award

1997 - President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery

1996 - Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi

1996 - Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)

1995 - 1st time 13 people in space

1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard

1993 - "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances

1993 - "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater New York City after * performances

1993 - "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 49 performances

1993 - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"

1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)

1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship

1993 - Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days

1993 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)

1992 - Farm Aid V 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

1991 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave

1991 - Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA)

1991 - Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev

1991 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)

1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress

1987 - Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87

1987 - Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m

1987 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt

1987 - New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl

1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)

1985 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards

1985 - Michael Secrest (U.S.) completes 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards

1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-C mission

1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years

1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic

1982 - Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century

1980 - 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation

1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay

1980 - Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (U.S.S.R.)

1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)

1980 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch

1978 - Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)

1978 - NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)

1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1976 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC

1971 - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes

1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct

1969 - Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. New Zealand

1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith

1967 - John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1964 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway New York City after 112 performances

1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder

1963 - SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France

1962 - Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals

1961 - George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets

1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California

1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points

1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

1958 - Recording Industry Association of American created

1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC

1958 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1958 - U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test

1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal

1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game

1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins

1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak

1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

1951 During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul

1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany

1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco

1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms

1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm

1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies

1941 Xavier Cugat and Orchestra record "Babalu"

1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas

1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day

1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia

1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio

1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the U.S. government, publishes 1st issue

1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars

1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation

1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense

1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City)

1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland

1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

1923 President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes

1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu Hawaii begins radio transmissions

1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions

1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions

1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF

1916 Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile

1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty

1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt

1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms

1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4

1906 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms

1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida

1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games

1903 WB Yeats and Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin

1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A

1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics

1900 U.S. currency goes on gold standard

1899 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2

1896 Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)

1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen

1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York City history (21")

1885 "Mikado" opera premieres in London

1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado," premieres in London

1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres

1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris

1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana

1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern

1845 -5.3 degrees F (-20.7 degrees C) in Groningen

1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)

1840 Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid

1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin leaves Australia

1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama

1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)

1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII

1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin

1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)

1734 - Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne

1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen

1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno

1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands

1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
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