March 14 in history — What Happened Today in History

Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.

The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.

Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.

The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.

A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.

Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.

The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.

The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.

Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.

Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.

Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.

The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.

Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces.

Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.

In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.

Battle of Verdun: German attack captures Côte 265 at the west end of Mort-Homme but the French 75th Infantry Brigade manages to hold Côte 295 at the east end.

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restrictions on polygamy.

The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.

The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris.

Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.

Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.

According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.

Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball player

J. T. Miller, American ice hockey player

Shotzi Blackheart, American wrestler

Erik Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler

Joe Allen, Welsh footballer

Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer

Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer

Marwin González, Venezuelan baseball player

Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver

Patrick Patterson, American basketball player

Stephen Curry, American basketball player

Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1925)

Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (born 1934)

Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930)

Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936)

Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925)

Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (born 1928)

Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (born 1913)

Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926)

Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (born 1920)

Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (born 1912)

Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (born 1929)

Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (born 1945)

Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (born 1928)