March 14......

March 14 is the 73rd (74th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining in the year on this date.

There is a Lebanese political coalition, called the March 14 Alliance. March 14 is also known as Pi (π) Day since the first three digits of the dates are the same as pi, 3.14.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1489 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, sold her kingdom to Venice. She was the last of the Lusignan dynasty.

● 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. {Little did she know the little expedition she was funding with Christopher Columbus would bring the most tolerant society of religious diversity in history.}

● 1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor

● 1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands

● 1559 - French-born Swiss reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'If your labors, where you now are, are sterile, and if here an abundant harvest awaits them, which is the most forcible tie? the one by which God draws you hither, or the one that detains you there?'

● 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots (French Protestants) defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.

● 1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony

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

● 1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

● 1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno

● 1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen

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

● 1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.

● 1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.

● 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

● 1800 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII.

● 1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

● 1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)

● 1826 - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá

● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia

● 1845 - -5.3ºF (-20.7ºC) in Groningen

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

● 1864 - Samuel Baker discovered another source of the Nile in East Africa. He named it Lake Albert Nyanza.

● 1864 - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana

● 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.

● 1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

● 1879 - Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, one of the great thinkers of the ages, scientist and pacifist, was born in Ulm, Germany.

● 1883 - Karl Marx dies, in poverty, London, age 64.

● 1888 - 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")

● 1891 - Louisiana mob storms a jail and lynches 11 Italian immigrants recently acquitted of murdering the sheriff of New Orleans.

● 1891 - The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.

● 1896 - Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)

● 1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics

● 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

● 1901 - Utah Governor Heber M. Wells vetoed a bill that would have relaxed restrictions on polygamy.

● 1903 - The Hay-Herran 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.

● 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues an executive order making Pelican Island, in Florida, a “preserve and breeding ground for native birds,” marking the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

● 1904 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the government's claim that the Northern Securities Company was an illegal merger between the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies.

● 1905 - French bankers refused to lend money to Russia until after their war.

● 1905 - The British House of Commons cited a need to compete with Germany in naval strength.

● 1906 - The island of Ustica was devastated by an earthquake.

● 1907 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from the continental U.S. (Meaning it was okay for them to harvest sugar cane or pineapples in Hawaii.}

● 1907 - Stock market crash, New York City.

● 1907 - Acapulco, Mexico, was hit by an earthquake.

● 1908 - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was chartered in Waco, Texas. Originally named Baylor Theological Seminary, the school campus relocated in 1910 to Fort Worth.

● 1909 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms

● 1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

● 1912 - IWW agrees to terms granting over 20% wage increases, successfully ending 32,000-person "Bread and Roses" strike against wool mills precipitated by wage cuts. Lawrence, Massachusetts.

● 1912 - An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempted to kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.

● 1912 - Death of Albert L. Peace, 68. One of the noted Scottish organists of his day, Peace composed many cantatas, organ pieces and hymn tunes -- including the enduring ST. MARGARET, to which the Church today sings George Matheson's "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go."

● 1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

● 1914 - United Farmers of Ontario founded at Toronto's Labor Temple.

● 1914 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty

● 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes. {Also, the mean time to failure of the new car dropped to 93 days instead of 12½ months.}

● 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

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

● 1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco

● 1918 - An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratified a peace treaty with the Central Powers.

● 1923 - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland

● 1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

● 1923 - President Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes

● 1931 - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York NY)

● 1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.

● 1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation

● 1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense

● 1934 - National Civil Liberties Council founded in England.

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

● 1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.

● 1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue

● 1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

● 1937 - English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Neither the nearness nor the remoteness of Christ's return is a rule to regulate us in the ordering of our temporal affairs. Spiritual preparedness is the great matter.'

● 1938 - Germany invaded Austria. A union of Austria and Germany was proclaimed by Adolf Hitler.

● 1939 - The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation. Hungary occupied the Carpatho-Ukraine. Slovakia declared its independence. German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.

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

● 1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies

● 1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.

● 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.

● 1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dambuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.

● 1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms

● 1947 - The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.

● 1947 - Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the U.S.S.R.

● 1948 - Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco

● 1949 - To protest military build-up 41 people publicly refuse to pay income tax.

● 1950 - FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was formed.

● 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

● 1951 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany

● 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party

● 1954 - The Viet Minh launched an assault on Dien Bien Phu in Saigon.

● 1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal

● 1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

● 1958 - The U.S. government suspended arms shipments to the Batista government of Cuba.

● 1958 - 'Bonny' Prince Albert of Monaco born; A celebratory 101-gun salute has been fired in Monaco after Princess Grace - formerly film star Grace Kelly - gave birth to a son.

● 1958 - RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)

● 1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC

● 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

● 1959 - J.R.D.A.C.I. founded at a congress in Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire.

● 1960 - Radio telescope makes space history; The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank sets a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles.

● 1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA

● 1961 - B-52 carrying nuclear weapons crashes in California while on a training flight.

● 1961 - The New Testament of the New English Bible was simultaneously published by both the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. (The complete Old & New Testament of the NEB was published in 1970.)

● 1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France

● 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

● 1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

● 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

● 1968 - Commission report publishes evidence of large-scale extermination of tribes (poisoning and machine-gunning) by Brazil's Indian Protection Service. Over 30 years later, such attacks are still alarmingly common.

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

● 1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

● 1970 - First U.S. postal strike.

● 1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos

● 1973 - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Egypt formally abrogated the 1971 Treaty Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union.

● 1977 - Legendary civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer dies in Ruleville, Mississippi at age 69. Hamer led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which challenged the state's all-white delegation to the 1964 National Democratic Convention. She also concentrated on African American self-reliance, including the Freedom Farm Cooperative, which fed 1,500 people.

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

● 1978 - The Israeli Defense Force, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani

● 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married. {Of course the respondents weren't asked if they were gay and wanted to be marries to a same sex partner.}

● 1979 - In China, a Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.

● 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American amateur boxing team.

● 1983 - OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices by 15% for the first time in its 23-year history.

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

● 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

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

● 1989 - Legendary radical naturalist Edward Abbey dies.

● 1989 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States.

● 1990 - Sixteen disabled rights activists arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act.

● 1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress

● 1991 - Brazilian government workers seize governor's palace after months without pay.

● 1991 - Bolivian interior minister Guillermo Capobianco resigned after U.S. officials accused him of receiving money from drug traffickers.

● 1991 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.

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

● 1992 - Farm Aid V

● 1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

● 1993 - An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador's civil war on the country's military.

● 1994 - Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell resigned because of controversy over billings he'd charged while in private law practice.

● 1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

● 1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

● 1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.

● 1995 - 1st time 13 people in space

● 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants.

● 1997 - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80

● 1997 - President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery

● 1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality

● 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran leaving 10,000 homeless.

● 2002 - The government charged the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron.

● 2002 - A Scottish appeals court upheld the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A five-judge court ruled unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was guilty of bringing down the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

● 2002 - 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile up on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia.

● 2004 - Pope John Paul II becomes the second-longest serving pope in history.

● 2004 - Opposition Socialists scored a dramatic upset win in Spain's general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they'd provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

● 2004 - Russian President Vladimir Putin captured more than 70 percent of the vote to win a second term in an election that European observers said fell short of democratic standards.

● 2005 - A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.

● 2005 - Cedar Revolution, where one million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

BIRTHS

● 1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)

● 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)

● 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)

● 1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)

● 1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, Italian king of Sardinia-Piedmont and first king of united Italy (d. 1878)

● 1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)

● 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)

● 1844 - King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)

● 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)

● 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915)

● 1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1961)

● 1864 - Casey Jones, railroad engineer (d. 1900)

● 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)

● 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

● 1880 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)

● 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)

● 1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)

● 1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)

● 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)

● 1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)

● 1903 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)

● 1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)

● 1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress Ziegfeld girl

● 1905 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist, historian and political commentator (d. 1983)

● 1912 - Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)

● 1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)

● 1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)

● 1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)

● 1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)

● 1916 - Horton Foote, American writer

● 1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)

● 1922 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)

● 1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)

● 1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate

● 1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr., Detroit Lions Owner

● 1928 - Frank Borman, American astronaut

● 1931 - Phil Phillips, R&B singer

● 1933 - Michael Caine, British actor

● 1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer

● 1933 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council

● 1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut

● 1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army

● 1938 - Angus Maclise, American mystic (d. 1979)

● 1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American actor

● 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director

● 1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Country singer

● 1945 - Walt Parazaider, Rock musician (Chicago)

● 1945 - Jasper Carrott, British comedian

● 1946 - Steve Kanaly, American actor

● 1947(48? NYT) - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian

● 1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet

● 1948 - Tom Coburn, U.S. senator, R-OK

● 1950 - Rick Dees, American disc jockey

● 1951 - Jerry Greenfield, founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream

● 1954 - A Proud Liberal, blogger, patriot and amateur historian

● 1954 - Jann Browne, Country singer

● 1954 - Adrian Zmed, Actor

● 1956 - Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist

● 1957 - Andrew Robinson, British author

● 1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco

● 1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress

● 1960 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player (d. 2006)

● 1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress

● 1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer

● 1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor

● 1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress

● 1965 - Kevin Brown, baseball player

● 1965 - Kiana Tom, fitness guru/model

● 1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter (''Dawson's Creek'')

● 1968 - Allen Elfman, Sedona's Official Philanthropist

● 1968 - Megan Follows, Canadian actress

● 1969 - Michael Bland, Rock musician (Soul Asylum)

● 1969 - Larry Johnson, former NBA player

● 1970 - Kristian Bush, Country singer (Sugarland)

● 1972 - Derrick, Rock musician (Jimmie's Chicken Shack)

● 1975 - Johan Paulik (aka Daniel Ferenčík), Slovak pornographic actor

● 1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1977 - Aki Hoshino, a Japanese bikini model.

● 1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer

● 1978 - Matt Kata, professional baseball player

● 1979 - Chris Klein, American actor (''American Pie'' movies)

● 1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer

● 1979 - Love, Angolan footballer

● 1979 - Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer

● 1979 - Jake Fogelnest, Actor

● 1980 - Aaron Brown, English footballer

● 1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player

● 1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver

● 1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist

● 1981 - Bobby Jenks, baseball player

● 1982 - Kate Maberly, Actress

● 1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

● 1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson)

● 1985 - Eva Angelina, porn actress

● 1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor

● 1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer

● 1994 - Frankie Ryan Manriquez, American actor

DEATHS

● 752 - Pope Zachary

● 1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)

● 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author (c. 1705)

● 1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)

● 1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)

● 1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)

● 1682 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (c. 1628)

● 1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)

● 1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)

● 1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)

● 1757 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)

● 1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)

● 1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)

● 1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)

● 1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)

● 1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)

● 1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)

● 1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)

● 1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)

● 1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)

● 1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)

● 1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)

● 1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)

● 1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)

● 1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)

● 1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)

● 1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)

● 1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)

● 1989 - Edward Abbey, American author (b. 1927)

● 1991 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)

● 1991 - Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)

● 1991 - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)

● 1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

● 1997 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)

● 1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)

● 2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)

● 2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)

● 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)

● 2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Boniface Curitan
● St. Diaconus
● Martyrs of Valeria
● St. Matilda
● St. Mathilda
● St. Paulina
● Bl. Ambrose Fernandez
● Bl. Dominic Jorjes
● Bl. Eve of Liege

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 1 (Civil Date: March 14)
● Martyr Eudocia of Heliopolis.
● Martyrs Nestor, Tribimius, Marcellus, and Anthony of Perge in Pamphylia.
● Martyr Antonina of Nicaea in Bithynia.
● Virgin Domnina of Syria.
● St. Agapius of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos.
● St. Martyrius, monk of Zelenetsk (Pskov).
● New-Martyr Abbess Antonina (1924)
● New-Martyr Hieromartyr Methodius (1920)
● New-Martyr Anastasia Andretevna, fool-for-Christ.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Sophronius and Silvester.
● Martyrs Charisius, Nicephorus, and Agapius.

● Albania - Summer Day: Albanian holiday Summer is celebrated in this day in Elbasan and its surroundings.

● Japan and Korea - White Day: Japanese holiday similar to Valentine's Day (men give gifts to women).

● Pi Day - unofficial mathematics holiday.

● Roman Empire - Equirria, horse races in honor of Mars were held.

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Memphis TN: Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) - ( Tuesday )
● New Mexico: Arbor Day - ( Friday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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