28381 | March 14 | Event | 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. |
28382 | March 14 | Event | 1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands. |
28383 | March 14 | Event | 1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. |
28384 | March 14 | Event | 1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. |
28385 | March 14 | Event | 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état. |
28386 | March 14 | Event | 2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there the resulting clash leaves 14 dead. |
28387 | March 14 | Event | 2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated |
28388 | March 14 | Event | 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet. |
28389 | March 14 | Birth | 1638 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710) |
28390 | March 14 | Birth | 1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (d. 1767) |
28391 | March 14 | Birth | 1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863) |
28392 | March 14 | Birth | 1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822) |
28393 | March 14 | Birth | 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1849) |
28394 | March 14 | Birth | 1807 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876) |
28395 | March 14 | Birth | 1813 – Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1892) |
28396 | March 14 | Birth | 1820 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878) |
28397 | March 14 | Birth | 1822 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889) |
28398 | March 14 | Birth | 1823 – Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (d. 1891) |
28399 | March 14 | Birth | 1833 – Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (d. 1911) |
28400 | March 14 | Birth | 1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (d. 1910) |
28401 | March 14 | Birth | 1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910) |
28402 | March 14 | Birth | 1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903) |
28403 | March 14 | Birth | 1844 – Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900) |
28404 | March 14 | Birth | 1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881) |
28405 | March 14 | Birth | 1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918) |
28406 | March 14 | Birth | 1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915) |
28407 | March 14 | Birth | 1854 – John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (d. 1925) |
28408 | March 14 | Birth | 1854 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (d. 1920) |
28409 | March 14 | Birth | 1854 – Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925) |
28410 | March 14 | Birth | 1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951) |