History of the Day for:
March 14
- 1743: The first recorded town meeting in America was held, in Boston.
- 1794: Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin.
- 1812: War bonds were authorized by the United States government for the first time.
- 1879: Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
- 1883: German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.
- 1900: Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.
- 1918: The first ship made of concrete to cross the Atlantic Ocean, the Faith, was launched.
- 1923: President Harding became the first president to file an income tax return.
- 1936: The U.S. government entered the magazine business with "The Federal Register."
- 1939: The republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved.
- 1939: Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1942: Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1943: World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1945: World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
- 1951: During the Korean War, U.N. forces recaptured Seoul.
- 1958: The Recording Industry Association of America certified the first gold record: Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star" on RCA Victor Records.
- 1964: A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1968: After two seasons, ABC aired the last episode of "Batman."
- 1980: A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
- 1995: American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a "Soyuz" spacecraft, headed for the "Mir" space station.
- 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.
- 2005: Cedar Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government.