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| Birthday March 14, 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer |
| Birthday March 14, 1804 Johann Strauss, composer |
| Birthday March 14, 1821 Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archeologist |
| Birthday March 14, 1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist |
| Birthday March 14, 1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Martian canals |
| Birthday March 14, 1854 Thomas Riley Marshall, (D), 28th VP (1913-21) |
| Birthday March 14, 1864 Casey Jones, RR engineer |
| Birthday March 14, 1879 Albert Einstein, relative, E = mcý (Nobel 1921), Ulm, Germany |
| Birthday March 14, 1887 Sylvia Beach, bookstore owner and publisher of Ulysses, is born |
| Birthday March 14, 1912 Les Brown, Bandleader |
| Birthday March 14, 1919 Max Shulman, novelist |
| Birthday March 14, 1920 Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, (Dennis the Menace) |
| Birthday March 14, 1922 Colin Fletcher |
| Birthday March 14, 1928 Frank Borman, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern Airline pres |
| Birthday March 14, 1933 Michael Caine, Engl Actor (Blame it on Rio) |
| Birthday March 14, 1933 Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We are the World) |
| Birthday March 14, 1934 Eugene A. Cernan, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17) |
| Birthday March 14, 1942 Rita Tushingham, Actress, Liverpool |
| Birthday March 14, 1947 Billy Crystal, comedian (SNL) |
| Birthday March 14, 1948 Billy Crystal is born |
| Birthday March 14, 1958 Prince Albert, Monaco |
| History March 14, 1629 Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony |
| History March 14, 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI) |
| History March 14, 1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) |
| History March 14, 1776 Alexander Hamilton is named captain of artillery company |
| History March 14, 1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin |
| History March 14, 1855 1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge |
| History March 14, 1862 Battle of New Bern, North Carolina |
| History March 14, 1870 Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible |
| History March 14, 1883 Karl Marx dies |
| History March 14, 1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952) |
| History March 14, 1900 US currency goes on gold standard |
| History March 14, 1903 1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL |
| History March 14, 1915 German cruiser Dresden sinks |
| History March 14, 1919 Max Brand publishes his first novel |
| History March 14, 1922 Mack Truck founder killed in car crash |
| History March 14, 1923 Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report |
| History March 14, 1931 1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC) |
| History March 14, 1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
| History March 14, 1943 Germans recapture Kharkov |
| History March 14, 1948 Freedom Train arrives in SF |
| History March 14, 1950 The FBI debuts 10 Most Wanted |
| History March 14, 1951 During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul |
| History March 14, 1958 The Recording Industry Association of America awards first Gold Record to Perry Como for Catch A Falling Star |
| History March 14, 1964 Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder |
| History March 14, 1964 Jack Ruby sentenced to death |
| History March 14, 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany |
| History March 14, 1965 Allies launch second wave of Rolling Thunder |
| History March 14, 1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
| History March 14, 1967 JFK's body moved to permanent gravesite |
| History March 14, 1969 Nixon discusses the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawals |
| History March 14, 1975 Susan Hayward dies at 56 |
| History March 14, 1980 Boxing team among casualties in Polish Air crash |
| History March 14, 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers) |
| History March 14, 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
| History March 14, 1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km) |
| History March 14, 1990 Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union |
| History March 14, 1991 Birmingham Six released |
| History March 14, 1997 President Clinton expresses desire to return to golf course |