March 14, 1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
March 14, 1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
March 14, 1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
March 14, 1995 1st time 13 people in space
March 14, 1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
March 14, 1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances
March 14, 1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
March 14, 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
March 14, 1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
March 14, 1991 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
March 14, 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
March 14, 1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
March 14, 1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
March 14, 1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
March 14, 1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
March 14, 1987 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
March 14, 1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
March 14, 1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
March 14, 1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
March 14, 1985 Michael Secrest (U.S.) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
March 14, 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
March 14, 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
March 14, 1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
March 14, 1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
March 14, 1980 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
March 14, 1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay
March 14, 1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (U.S.S.R.)
March 14, 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)
March 14, 1980 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
March 14, 1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
March 14, 1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
March 14, 1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
March 14, 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 14, 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
March 14, 1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC
March 14, 1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
March 14, 1971 Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
March 14, 1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
March 14, 1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
March 14, 1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
March 14, 1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. NZ
March 14, 1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
March 14, 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
March 14, 1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
March 14, 1967 John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
March 14, 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
March 14, 1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway New York City after 112 performances
March 14, 1964 Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder
March 14, 1963 SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists
March 14, 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
March 14, 1962 Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
March 14, 1961 George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets
March 14, 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California
March 14, 1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelipha) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
March 14, 1958 RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
March 14, 1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
March 14, 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
March 14, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 14, 1958 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 14, 1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
March 14, 1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
March 14, 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
March 14, 1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
March 14, 1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
March 14, 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
March 14, 1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
March 14, 1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
March 14, 1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party
March 14, 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
March 14, 1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
March 14, 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
March 14, 1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
March 14, 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
March 14, 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
March 14, 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
March 14, 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
March 14, 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
March 14, 1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio
March 14, 1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
March 14, 1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the U.S. government, publishes 1st issue
March 14, 1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
March 14, 1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
March 14, 1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
March 14, 1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City)
March 14, 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland
March 14, 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
March 14, 1923 President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes
March 14, 1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions
March 14, 1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
March 14, 1916 Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
March 14, 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
March 14, 1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
March 14, 1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
March 14, 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
March 14, 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
March 14, 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
March 14, 1906 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
March 14, 1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
March 14, 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
March 14, 1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
March 14, 1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
March 14, 1900 U.S. currency goes on gold standard