March 2014 in History

Events in History

Mar 1 29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China

Event of Interest

Mar 1 US President Barack Obama warns Russian President Vladimir Putin over involvement in Ukraine

Mar 2 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to Ukraine

Event of Interest

Mar 4 Chinese premier Li Keqiang declares war on pollution at the National People’s Congress

Mar 5 A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15
Mar 6 Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part of Russia

Flight MH370 Disappears

Mar 8 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries

Post-it notes written by well-wishers in Malaysia after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing

Event of Interest

Mar 10 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution

Mar 11 Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
Mar 12 8 people are killed, 70 injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York
Mar 13 After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
Mar 16 Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
Mar 17 The Republic of Crimea is declared
Mar 18 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession
Mar 18 Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation
Mar 18 US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
Mar 19 Israel sends airforce against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights
Mar 19 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
Mar 21 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
Mar 22 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda
Mar 22 43 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
Mar 22 Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
Mar 22 The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia
Mar 24 Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea
Mar 26 Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia
Mar 27 UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
Mar 28 2 cases of Ebola are reported in Liberia among people who have travelled to Guinea
Mar 28 Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
Mar 29 Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia
Mar 29 First same-sex couples marry in the UK as a result of the passing of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013

Weddings in History

Mar 8 Supermarket Superstar hostess Stacy Keibler (34) weds Future Ads CEO Jared Pobre on an intimate beachside ceremony in Mexico
Mar 15 "Today" show anchor Savannah Guthrie (42) weds public relations Michael Feldman (45) at the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain Resort in Tucson, Arizona

Deaths in History

Mar 1 Alain Resnais, French director (Muriel, Hiroshima mon amour), dies at 91
Mar 2 Justin Kaplan, American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain - Pulitzer Prize 1967), dies at 88
Mar 3 William R. Pogue, American astronaut, dies at 84
Mar 5 Geoff Edwards, American game show host, dies from pneumonia at 83
Mar 8 William Guarnere, American WWII veteran and author, portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, dies at 90
Mar 10 Joe McGinniss, American author (The Selling of the President 1968), dies at 71
Mar 11 Bob Crow, English trade union leader (National Union RMT), dies of a heart attack at 52
Mar 13 Reubin Askew, American politician (37th Governor of Florida), dies at 85
Mar 14 Tony Benn, British politcian, Minister of Technology and President of the Stop the War Coalition, dies aged 88
Mar 15 Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef (Two Fat Ladies), dies at 66
Mar 17 L'Wren Scott [Laura Bambrough], American fashion designer and partner of Mick Jagger, commits suicide at 49
Mar 21 James Rebhorn, American actor, dies from melanoma at 65
Mar 22 Patrice Wymore, American actress (The Big Tree), dies from natural causes at 87
Mar 23 Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1976-81), dies from a respiratory infection at 81
Mar 31 Charles Keating, American district attorney (Los Angeles California), dies at 90