March 14: New Year's Day (Sikhism); White Day in East Asia; Pi Day
The Lakeview Gusher
- 1757 – British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad when he failed to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
- 1910 – Oil prospectors in Kern County, California, drilled into a pressurized oil deposit, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill (pictured) in history.
- 1937 – Pope Pius XI announced the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, condemning antisemitism, criticizing Nazism, and listing breaches of an agreement signed with the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1972 – Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for his translation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago after it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, was killed in a mysterious explosion.
- 1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.
John Sigismund Zápolya (d. 1571) · Fannie Lou Hamer (d. 1977) · Tony Benn (d. 2014)
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