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20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
1996 – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
- 1996 – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
- 1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer
- 1997 – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
- 1997 – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
- 1998 – Alina Müller, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1998 – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure... | 3,400 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
Symeon the New Theologian, Byzantine monk (b. 949)
- 1289 – Demetrius II, king of Georgia (b. 1259)
- 1316 – Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1374 – Go-Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1338)
- 1496 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
- 1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (b. 14... | 3,401 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
– Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, English jurist and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1627)
- 1731 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1660)
- 1790 – András Hadik, Hungarian field marshal (b. 1710)
- 1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and politicia... | 3,402 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
1909 – Joseph Petrosino, American police officer (b. 1860)
- 1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846)
- 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
- 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
- 1929... | 3,403 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
– Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
- 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize l... | 3,404 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
and suffragist (b. 1870)
- 1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
- 1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish Communist leader (b. 1892)
- 1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
- 1960 – Kshiti... | 3,405 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
banker and businessman (b. 1904)
- 1979 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928)
- 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English actor and playwright (b. 1896)
- 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
- 1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
- 1... | 3,406 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
(b. 1890)
- 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
- 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
- 2000 – Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)
- 2... | 3,407 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Vi... | 3,408 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
and journalist (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Samuel Glazer, American businessman, co-founded Mr. Coffee (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka, Germ... | 3,409 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
– George Donaldson, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
- 2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
- 2014 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
- 2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activ... | 3,410 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
Governor of Delta State (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
# Holidays and observances.
- Arbor Day (China)
- Arbor Day (Taiwan)
- Tree Day (Republic of North Macedonia)
- Aztec New Year
- Christian feast day:
- Alphege
- Bernard of Ca... | 3,411 |
20197 | March 12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2012 | March 12
Alphege
- Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)
- Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia
- Mura (McFeredach)
- Nicodemus of Mammola
- Fina
- Luigi Orione
- Maximilian of Tebessa
- Nicodemus of Mammola
- Paul Aurelian
- Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, an... | 3,412 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
March 10
# Events.
- 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
- 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
- 947 – The Later Han is... | 3,413 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
- 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance a... | 3,414 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
East Indies Army is created.
- 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
- 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
- 1865 – Amy Spain, American slave, is executed for stealing from her own... | 3,415 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
- 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty ov... | 3,416 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
the Ottoman Empire ends.
- 1917 – Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
- 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released af... | 3,417 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
- 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
- 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional ... | 3,418 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
- 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is ... | 3,419 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
- 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2017 – The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the coun... | 3,420 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (d. 1572)
- 1549 – Francis Solanus, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1610)
- 1590 – Dietrich Reinkingk, German lawyer and politician (d. 1664)
- 1604 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (d. 1670)
- 1607 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of... | 3,421 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Gunby, American general (d. 1807)
- 1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest and poet (d. 1838)
- 1769 – Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1840)
- 1772 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1829)
- 1777 – Louis Hersent, French painter (d. 1860)
-... | 3,422 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
lawyer and 20th President (1847) (d. 1850)
- 1795 – Joseph Légaré, Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (d. 1855)
- 1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (d. 1886)
- 1844 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (d. 1908)
- 1844 – Marie Euphrosyne Spartali,... | 3,423 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
- 1864 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (d. 1897)
- 1867 – Hector Guimard, French-American architect, designed the La Bluette (d. 1942)
- 1867 – Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (d. 1940)
- 1870 – David ... | 3,424 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
- 1889 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (d. 1972)
- 1890 – Gakuryō Nakamura, Japanese painter and designer (d. 1969)
- 1890 – Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1939)
- 1891 – Sam Jaffe, American act... | 3,425 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
- 1901 – Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (d. 1931)
- 1903 – Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)
- 1903 – Edward B... | 3,426 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (d. 1987)
- 1920 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Boris Vian,... | 3,427 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
player (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Claude Laydu, Belgian-French actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
- 1927 – Paul Wunderlich, German painter, sculptor and graphic artist (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Sara Montiel, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
- 1928 – James Earl Ray, American criminal; assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. ... | 3,428 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
poet (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentinian poet and translator (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower and coach
- 1935 – Graham Farmer, Australian footballer and coach
- 1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman
- 1936 – Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer-songwrite... | 3,429 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
martial artist
- 1940 – David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
- 1943 – Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author
- 1944 – Gail North-Saunders, Bahamian historian, archivist, and author who established the Bahamian National Archives
- 1945 – Katharine Houghton, American actress and pla... | 3,430 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
– Tom Scholz, American rock musician (Boston), songwriter, inventor, and engineer
- 1948 – Austin Carr, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1949 – Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and academic
- 1949 – Barbara Corcoran, American businesswoman and television personality
- 1952 – Morgan Tsv... | 3,431 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
- 1958 – Garth Crooks, English footballer and sportscaster
- 1958 – Steve Howe, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
- 1961 – Laurel Clark, American captain, physician, and astronaut (d. 2003)
... | 3,432 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
– Rick Rubin, American record producer, founded Def Jam Recordings
- 1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- 1964 – Jojo Lastimosa, Filipino basketball player and coach
- 1964 – Nikola Mladenov, Macedonian journalist (d. 2013)
- 1964 – Toni Polster, Austrian... | 3,433 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)
- 1970 – Matt Barlow, American singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor and director
- 1972 – Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
- 1972 – Timbaland, American rapper and producer
- 1973 – Jason Croker, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1973 – Ch... | 3,434 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
and actress
- 1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Benjamin Burnley, American musician Breaking Benjamin
- 1980 – Lars Horntveth, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
- 1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer and manager
- 1981 – Ángel López, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Steven Reid, Engl... | 3,435 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
footballer
- 1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress and producer
- 1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
- 1985 – Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1987 – Martellus Bennett, American football player
- 1987 – Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1987 – Ebba Jungmark, Swe... | 3,436 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
French-born Congolese football player
- 1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer
- 1995 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player
- 1995 – Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
- 1997 – Julia Barretto, Filipino actress and singer
- 1997 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
- 1999 – Max Bryant, Australian cri... | 3,437 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (b. c.1244)
- 1391 – Tvrtko I of Bosnia (b. 1338)
- 1476 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr (b. 1430)
- 1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (b. 1445)
- 1513 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord H... | 3,438 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
– Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch chemist and engineer (b. 1604)
- 1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)
- 1724 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (b. 1641)
- 1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French author and critic (b. 1719)
- 1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl o... | 3,439 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
poet, playwright, and ethnographer (b. 1814)
- 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1805)
- 1898 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (b. 1817)
- 1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-French fashion designer, founded the House of... | 3,440 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
Japanese poet and songwriter (b. 1903)
- 1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
- 1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
- 1942 – Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
- 1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b.... | 3,441 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
and poet (b. 1903)
- 1977 – E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (b. 1906)
- 1982 – Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)
- 1985 – Bob ... | 3,442 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
– Agepê, Brazilian singer/composer (b. 1942)
- 1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
- 1997 – LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Mas... | 3,443 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
(b. 1928)
- 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
- 2011 – Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Bert R. Bulkin, American engineer (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian politician, President Ukrainian ... | 3,444 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
director (b. 1921)
- 2016 – Keith Emerson, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 2016 – Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (b. 1942)
- 2016 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1920)
- 2016 – Anita Brookner,... | 3,445 |
20196 | March 10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2010 | March 10
r, English novelist and art historian (b. 1928)
# Holidays and observances.
- Christian feast day:
- Anastasia the Patrician
- Attala
- Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)
- Himelin
- John Ogilvie
- Macarius of Jerusalem
- Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
- Pope Simplicius
- Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)
- March 10 (East... | 3,446 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
March 14
# Events.
- 44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
- 313 – Emperor Jin Huaidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
- 1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venic... | 3,447 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.
- 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans... | 3,448 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
standard.
- 1903 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Senate of Colombia would later reject the treaty.
- 1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1910 ... | 3,449 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
Boat" opens at Radio City Music Hall.
- 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
- 1945 –... | 3,450 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
– The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1978 – The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
- 1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injur... | 3,451 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
- 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
- 2007 – The ... | 3,452 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
almost everything in its path, causing devastating floods, killing and injuring thousands of people and ruining crops. More than 2.6 million people could be affected across the three countries, and the port city of Beira, which was hit on March 8 and is home to 500,000 people, is now an “island in the ocean”, ... | 3,453 |
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– Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (d. 1767)
- 1790 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
- 1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874)
- 1801 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)
- 1804 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and con... | 3,454 |
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1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)
- 1836 – Isabella Beeton, English author of "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" (d. 1865)
- 1837 – Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
- 1844 – Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
- 1844 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English ... | 3,455 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
- 1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
- 1863 – Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)
- 1866 – Alexey Troitsky, Russian composer and author (d. 1942)
- 18... | 3,456 |
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Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
- 1885 – Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
- 1886 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
- 1887 – Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)
- 1894 – Osa Johnson, American di... | 3,457 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
1904 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010)
- 1905 – Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (d. 1972)
- 1906 – Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Ed Heinemann, Ameri... | 3,458 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
1912 – W. Graham Claytor, Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)
- 1912 – W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1914 – Bill Owen,... | 3,459 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
librarian (d. 2014)
- 1918 – Dennis Patrick, American actor and director (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created "Dennis the Menace" (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (d. 2014)
- 1921... | 3,460 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
(d. 2014)
- 1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)
- 1926 – François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1928 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
- ... | 3,461 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
1934 – Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army
- 1936 – Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
- 1937 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter
- 1938 – John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (d. 2016)
- 1939 – Pilar B... | 3,462 |
20199 | March 14 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March%2014 | March 14
English actress
- 1943 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (d. 1994)
- 1944 – Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor
- 1944 – Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager
- 1944 – Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager
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(d. 1993)
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screenwriter
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- ... | 3,465 |
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Turkish–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited
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- 1965... | 3,466 |
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– Gary Anthony Williams, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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Australian rugby player
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Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
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Scottish dentist and politician
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– Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer
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and saint (b. 895)
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politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1704)
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Communist politician (b. 1896)
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-... | 3,475 |
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of Indonesia (b. 1902)
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1910)
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1913)
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2018 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (b. 1979)
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# Holidays and observances.... | 3,479 |
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eann piper (b. 1945)
# Holidays and observances.
- Christian feast day:
- Curetán (or Boniface)
- Leobinus
- Matilda of Ringelheim
- March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Constitution Day (Andorra)
- Earliest day on which Lazarus Saturday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the day be... | 3,480 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (; 31 August 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to... | 3,481 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
committed suicide in 1941. As a lyrical poet, her passion and daring linguistic experimentation mark her as a striking chronicler of her times and the depths of the human condition.
# Early years.
Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow, the daughter of Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, a professor of Fine Ar... | 3,482 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
comfort, Tsvetaeva would later come to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.
Tsvetaeva's two half-siblings, Valeria and Andrei, were the children of Ivan's deceased first wife, Varvara Dmitrievna Ilovaiskaya, daughter of the historian Dmitry Ilovaisky. Tsvetaeva's only full sister, Anastasia, ... | 3,483 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
get over her. Maria Tsvetaeva had had a love affair before her marriage, from which she never recovered. Maria Tsvetaeva disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination; she wanted her daughter to become a pianist, holding the opinion that her poetry was poor.
In 1902 Tsvetaeva's mother contracted tubercul... | 3,484 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
There were many Russian "émigré" revolutionaries residing at that time in Nervi, who may have had some influence on the young Tsvetaeva.
In June 1904 Tsvetaeva was sent to school in Lausanne. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during the course of her travels she a... | 3,485 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
symbolist movement, and this movement was to colour most of her later work. It was not the theory which was to attract her, but the poetry and the gravity which writers such as Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, "Vecherny Albom" ("Evening Album... | 3,486 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Family and career.
She began spending time at Voloshin's home in the Black Sea resort of Koktebel ("Blue Height"), which was a well-known haven for writers, poets and artists. She became enamoured of the work of Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, although she never met Blok and did not meet Akhmatova ... | 3,487 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
by Tsar Nicholas II. Tsvetaeva's love for Efron was intense; however, this did not preclude her from having affairs, including one with Osip Mandelstam, which she celebrated in a collection of poems called "Mileposts". At around the same time, she became involved in an affair with the poet Sophia Parno... | 3,488 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
in the Crimea until the revolution, and had two daughters: Ariadna, or Alya (born 1912) and Irina (born 1917).
In 1914, Efron volunteered for the front and by 1917 he was an officer stationed in Moscow with the 56th Reserve. Tsvetaeva was a close witness of the Russian Revolution, which she rejected. ... | 3,489 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
where there was a terrible famine.
She wrote six plays in verse and narrative poems. Between 1917 and 1922 she wrote the epic verse cycle "Lebedinyi stan" ('‘The Encampment of the Swans’') about the civil war, glorifying those who fought against the communists. The cycle of poems in the style of a dia... | 3,490 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
a toll on Tsvetaeva. With no immediate family to turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In 1919, she placed both her daughters in a state orphanage, mistakenly believing that they would be better fed there. Alya became ill, and Tsvetaeva removed her, but Irina died there of starva... | 3,491 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
and Prague.
In May 1922, Tsvetaeva and Ariadna left Soviet Russia and were reunited with Efron in Berlin, whom she had thought had been killed by the Bolsheviks. There she published the collections "Separation", "Poems to Blok", and the poem "The Tsar Maiden", much of her poetry appeared in Moscow and... | 3,492 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
only meat we eat is horsemeat". When offered an opportunity to earn money by reading her poetry, she describes having to beg a simple dress from a friend to replace the one she had been living in.
Tsvetaeva began a passionate affair with , a former military officer, a liaison which became widely known... | 3,493 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Tsvetaeva's return to Russia.
In summer 1924, Efron and Tsvetaeva left Prague for the suburbs, living for a while in Jíloviště, before moving on to Všenory, where Tsvetaeva completed "The Poem of the End", and was to conceive their son, Georgy, whom she was to later nickname 'Mur'. Tsvetaeva wanted to... | 3,494 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
including "Remeslo" ("Craft", 1923) and "Posle Rossii" ("After Russia", 1928). Reflecting a life in poverty and exiled, the work holds great nostalgia for Russia and its folk history, while experimenting with verse forms.
## Paris.
In 1925, the family settled in Paris, where they would live for the n... | 3,495 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Tsvetaeva did not feel at all at home in Paris's predominantly ex-bourgeois circle of Russian émigré writers. Although she had written passionately pro-'White' poems during the Revolution, her fellow émigrés thought that she was insufficiently anti-Soviet, and that her criticism of the Soviet régime wa... | 3,496 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Rilke, the Czech poet Anna Tesková, the critics D. S. Mirsky and Aleksandr Bakhrakh, and the Georgian émigré princess Salomea Andronikova, who became her main source of financial support. Her poetry and critical prose of the time, including her autobiographical prose works of 1934–7, is of lasting lite... | 3,497 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
To Pasternak she complained "They don't like poetry and what am I apart from that, not poetry but that from which it is made. [I am] an inhospitable hostess. An young woman in an old dress." She began to look back at even the Prague times with nostalgia and resent her exiled state more deeply.
Meanwhi... | 3,498 |
20187 | Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva
Ignace Reiss in September 1937, on a country lane near Lausanne, Switzerland. After Efron's escape, the police interrogated Tsvetaeva, but she seemed confused by their questions and ended up reading them some French translations of her poetry. The police concluded that she was deranged and knew nothing... | 3,499 |
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