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1743Mar 14The first recorded town meeting in America was held at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
1790Mar 14Captain Bligh returned to England with news of the mutiny on the Bounty.
1812Mar 14The US Congress authorized war bonds to finance War of 1812.
1861Mar 14Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (58), composer, died.
1864Mar 14Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle,” premiered in Paris.
1900Mar 14Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act for U.S. currency.
1903Mar 14The 1st national bird reservation was established in Sebastian, Florida.
1912Mar 14An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempted to kill Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
1916Mar 14In the Battle of Verdun Germans attacked on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun.
1920Mar 14Hank Ketchum, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), was born in Seattle, Wa.
1939Mar 14Nash Kelvinator and IBM were removed from the DJIA. AT&T was again added to the DJIA along with United Aircraft.
1943Mar 14The Germans reoccupied Kharkov in the Soviet Union.
1951Mar 14During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
1958Mar 14RIAA certified its 1st gold record: Perry Como’s Catch A Falling Star.
1965Mar 14Israel’s cabinet formally approved establishing diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1976Mar 14Busby Berkeley (b.1895), US film director and choreographer, died.
1990Mar 14The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and West and East Germany held their first formal meeting on reunifying the German states.
1991Mar 14Speakers at a Los Angeles Police Commission hearing demanded the ouster of Chief Daryl F. Gates in the wake of the videotaped police beating of motorist Rodney King.
1992Mar 14The Associated Press obtained the names of 22 of 24 of the worst offenders in the check overdraft scandal at the House bank; topping the list were former  Rep. Tommy Robinson of Arkansas and Rep. Bob Mrazek of New York, both Democrats.
1993Mar 14An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war on the country’s military.
1997Mar 14Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn knee tendon in President Clinton’s right leg. The injury had been caused by a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at golfer Greg Norman’s Florida home.
1999Mar 14The Clinton administration conceded the Chinese had gained from technology allegedly stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the government responded decisively; Republicans demanded a comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward China.
2000Mar 14Pres. Clinton and PM Tony Blair said that the raw data of human genes “should be made freely available to scientists everywhere.”
2001Mar 14Doug Swingley won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska for the third straight year.
2002Mar 14The US Justice Dept. unveiled a criminal indictment against Arthur Anderson LLP on obstruction of justice charges in the Enron case.
2003Mar 14Pres. Bush promised to reveal a US “road map” to Middle East peace. It was contingent on the confirmation of a Palestinian prime minister with real authority.
2004Mar 14In southeastern Afghanistan U.S.-led troops surprised eight enemy fighters in a cave complex, prompting a gunbattle, which left 3 militiamen killed and 5 others wounded.
2005Mar 14San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
2006Mar 14A Washington DC judge ruled that the slaughter of horses for meat may continue in the US.
2007Mar 14President Bush, speaking from Mexico, said he was troubled by the Justice Department’s misleading explanations to Congress of why it fired eight US attorneys, but said the firings were “entirely appropriate.”
2008Mar 14In Mississippi Richard Scruggs, chief architect of the $206 billion tobacco settlement in 1998, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a judge with $50,000 in a dispute over legal fees.
2009Mar 14President Barack Obama met with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for talks on the economy, energy and the environment.
2010Mar 14American rower Katie Spotz (22) completed a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat. The athlete from Mentor, Ohio, set out from Dakar, Senegal, on Jan. 3 and endured rough seas during the 2,817-mile (4,533-km) crossing.
2011Mar 14Colombian troops killed Olidem Romel Solarte Ceron (39), alias “Oliver Solarte,” in a joint forces operation near San Miguel, a town bordering Ecuador. The top FARC rebel had supplied Mexican traffickers with cocaine and managed finances and arms dealings for the guerrillas’ powerful Southern Bloc.
2012Mar 14Chicago-based Encyclopedia Britannica said it is shelving its print edition after 244 years in favor of it Web-based version.
2013Mar 14A US federal judge ruled unconstitutional national security provisions that permit federal investigators to access customer information from some companies without court approval.
2014Mar 14It was reported that Kevin Gorman (22) has become the official Wikipedian-in-Residence at UC Berkeley, the first post of its kind at a university.
Source: Timelines of History

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