March 1914 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Mar 9 US Senator Albert B. Fall demands the "Cubanization of Mexico"

Mar 10 Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez

Historic Publication

Mar 11 Rupert Brooke's poems "The Dead" and "The Soldier" are published in The Times Literary Supplement

Mar 14 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
Mar 18 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen, China
Mar 21 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
Mar 21 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
Mar 27 1st successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels

Birthdays in History

Mar 1 Archie Gumede, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (ANC), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1998)
Mar 1 Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast), born in Oklahoma City (d. 1994)
Mar 4 Robert R. Wilson, American physicist (The Manhattan Project), sculptor and architect, born in Frontier, Wyoming (d. 2000)
Mar 7 Morton DaCosta, American film and theatre director (Island of Love; The Music Man), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
Mar 8 Jacob B. Bakema, Dutch modernist architect (St Louis Missouri), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1981)
Mar 8 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 1987)
Mar 13 Edward O'Hare, American naval aviator of the U.S. Navy, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1943)
Mar 13 Tessie O'Shea, Welsh stage and screen entertainer, born in Cardiff (d. 1995)
Mar 13 W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (Who Has Seen the Wind?), born in Weyburn, Canada (d. 1998)
Mar 14 Henry Ralph Carr, English WWII soldier (A Sapper's War) (d. 1996)
Mar 15 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
Mar 18 James Pack, British naval officer and museum curator (Portsmouth), born in Malta (d. 1995)

Jiang Qing (1914-1991)

Mar 19 Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China

Mar 19 Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
Mar 20 William Baddeley, English church minister (restored St James's Piccadilly, Bishop of Brisbane), born in London, England (d. 1998)
Mar 21 Hernán Siles Zuazo, Bolivian politician (President of Bolivia 1956-60, 1982-85), born in La Paz, Bolivia (d. 1996)
Mar 22 Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist (British Leyland), born in Plymouth, England (d. 2008)
Mar 22 Masao Maruyama, Japanese social scientist, born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1996)
Mar 25 Marthe Robert, French essayist and translator who influenced Sigmund Freud, born in Paris, France (d. 1996)
Mar 25 Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (Green Revolution - Nobel Peace Prize 1970), born in Cresco, Iowa (d. 2009)
Mar 26 Ian McGeoch, Scottish Vice-Admiral with Royal Navy (submarine HMS Splendid WWII), born in Helensburgh, Scotland (d. 2007)
Mar 26 Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematics educator (Kumon Institute of Education,), born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan (d. 1995)

William Westmoreland (1914-2005)

Mar 26 American general and commander of American forces in the Vietnam War between 1964-68, born in Saxon, South Carolina

Mar 28 Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (Closely Observed Trains), born in Brno, Austria-Hungary (d. 1997)
Mar 28 Dick Norris, Australian entomologist, born in Geraldton, Western Australia (d. 2003)
Mar 28 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary of State (1980-81), born in Rumford, Maine (d. 1996)
Mar 29 Chapman Pincher, British journalist and author (about secret service), born in Ambala, Punjab, India (d. 2014)
Mar 31 Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (Salamandra; Topoemas), writer and diplomat who won the 1990 Nobel Prize laureate, born in Mexico City (d. 1998)

Deaths in History

Mar 1 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, dies at 63

George Westinghouse (1846-1914)

Mar 12 American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system) who was a pioneer of the electrical industry (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67

Mar 16 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, dies at 70
Mar 16 Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
Mar 16 John Murray, Canadian-British oceanographer, marine biologist (Challenger Expedition, 1872-76), and writer (The Depths of the Ocean), dies in a car wreck at 73
Mar 19 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
Mar 23 Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)