On This Day - March 14th

On this day in the year 1489 of the common era (CE), Catherine Cornaro, the last queen of Cyprus, is forced to abdicate by city state of Venice (Italy)

On this day in the year 1559 CE, storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem in the Netherlands.

On this day in 1590 CE, at the Battle of Ivry, the French king Henry IV defeats the Catholic League during the utterly disastrous period of time marked by the Wars of Religion; fiftyseven years later: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

1592 is the ultimate “Pi Day," for the reason that, this day at 6:53 Ammarks the greatest  correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358).

In 1644 CE England grants a patent to Providence Plantations for what is now Rhode Island; ninety-nine years later, the first American town meeting is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Fourteen years after that, in 1757 CE, on board His Majesty’s Ship, the H.M.S. the Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of a besieged British garrison.

In 1793 CE, lieutenant governor Simcoe of Upper Canada passes the first legislation against the importation of slaves, after a enslaved woman is forcibly transported to New York state to be sold.

In 1794 CE, Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern United States (U.S.); one hundred and five years later, Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany, receives a U.S. patent for a "Navigable Balloon."

In 1812 CE the U.S. Congress authorizes war bonds to finance the War of 1812; ninety-one years later, the first national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida.

In 1821 CE the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York, New York.

In 1858 CE, Seventh Day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White receives a vision while attending a funeral service in Lovett's Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio.

In 1900 CE, Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity and genetics; also on this day, the U.S. currency goes on the gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act.

In 1904 CE, in a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the United States Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; it is the first case in U.S. president, Teddy Roosevelt's “trust-busting” campaign; three years later, by executive order, Japanese laborers are barred entry from the United States. Twenty-six years later, in 1933 CE, the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corp begins its tree conservation program.

In 1913 CE South Africa's Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages are invalid; making it so that all Muslim and Hindu marriages are declared invalid.

In 1918 CE, the first concrete ship to cross the Atlantic since the age of Gilgamesh, the faith, is launched in San Francisco.

In 1923 CE the German Supreme Court prohibits the NSDAP, the Nazi party…to everyone’s sorrow, it did not work; also on this day, U.S. president Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to pay taxes; fourteen years later, pope Pius XI publishes the anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge…it was not seen as a strong rebuke of the so-called third reich. Two years after that, in 1939 CE, Nazi Germany dissolves the Republic of Czechoslovakia; two years later, the Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid the operation of Jewish owned companies.

In 1927 CE Pan American Airlines incorporates as a mail delivery and passenger service; four years later, the first theater is constructed with a design for rear projection in New York, New York.

In 1936 CE the Federal Register, the first propaganda rag of the United States government publishes its first issue; fourteen years later, the Federal Bureau of Investigations starts a public list of the Ten Most Wanted fugitives.

In 1954 CE the Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox; two years later, fifty-year-old pitching star, Satchel Paige, signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League. Five years after that, in 1961 CE, former New York Yankees general manager, George Weiss, becomes the first president of the New York Metropolitans, after Major League Baseball’s expansion franchise is formed.

In 1958 CE the Recording Industry Association of American is formed, and on the same day take the official action of certifying the gold record for Perry Como's single, Catch A Falling Star, as the first, and the first official, gold record; five years later, musician Frank Zappa. Age twenty-two, tapes an appearance for the syndicated: The Steve Allen Show, he and the host 'play' bicycles as musical instruments along with the show's orchestra…the segment airs later in the month,

In 1968 CE, CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe’s free advertising because the organization doesn't make it clear to its listeners that it is sponsored by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1972 CE, at the fourteenth Grammy Awards, Bill Withers wins for his song, Ain't No Sunshine, and Muddy Waters for his album, They Call Me Muddy Waters; twenty-nine years later, at the twenty-sixth Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Neil Diamond, Dr. John and Tom Waits are among the inductees. Eleven years after that, in 2022 CE, Dolly Parton removes herself from the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying "I don’t feel that I have earned that right” (she later reconsiders and gets in).

In 1958 CE the Apartheid government of South Africa prohibits the African National Congress from operating as a political party.

In 1958 CE the U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; on this same day the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics performs atmospheric nuclear test. Eighteen years after that, in 1976 CE, the U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

In 1964 CE, Jack Ruby is sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder; three years later John F. Kennedy's body is moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial in Arligton cemetery…

In 1970 CE, Ursula K. Le Guin becomes is the first woman to win the Nebula Award for Best Novel with her work, The Left Hand of Darkness

In 1971 CE South Vietnamese troops flee Laos in an attempt to escape with their lives; as on this same time day The Rolling Stones flee England for France in an attempt to escape paying taxes.

In 1972 CE, two Irish Republican Army members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry; twelve years later, Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. Seven years after that, in 1991 CE, an English Court of Appeal frees the "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment.

In 1973 CE, future United States senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp where he was beaten and tortured.

In 1986 CE the European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet at a range of 605 km.

In 1990 CE, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress; two years later the Soviet newspaper Pravda suspends publication

In 2005 CE the Cedar Revolution takes place, where over a million Lebanese march in the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and the collusion of their government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

In 2013 CE Xi Jinping is named president of the People's Republic of China.

In 2018 CE, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s “Twin Study” finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother; after one year in space seven percent of his genes have been altered.

In 2018 CE the United Kingdom (U.K.) announces it will expel twenty-three Russian diplomats (a number significant to the illuminati) after a Russian-made nerve agent was used on former Russian spy now living in the U.K.; three years later a U.K. police officer is charged with the death of Sarah Everard who disappeared while walking home in south London, and whose death sparked debate concerning violence against women.

In 2022 CE civilians are finally able to flee the humanitarian crisis in the heavily bombed Ukranian city of Mariupol where the death toll among civilians is two thousand five hundred and climbing; on this same day, the omicron variation of COVID-19 causes the largest outbreak of COVID in China since 2020 CE, with twenty-six million people under lockdown in Changchun and Shenzhen provinces.

In 2025 CE, the price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits $3,000.00 an ounce for the first time; today in 2026 the price of gold is: $5,023.10 an ounce.