Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14

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 * 1489 – Catherine Cornaro (pictured), Queen of Cyprus, was forced to abdicate and sell the administration of the island to the Republic of Venice.
 * 1593 – Japanese invasions of Korea: A force of 3,000 Korean soldiers successfully defended Haengju Fortress against 30,000 Japanese invaders.
 * 1757 – Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad for failing to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven Years' War.
 * 1885 – The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
 * 1945 – The Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb earthquake bomb, on a strategic railway viaduct in Bielefeld, Germany.
 * 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, died in an explosion.
 * 1973 – Vietnam War: After having been captured by North Vietnamese forces five and a half years earlier, U.S. Navy pilot John McCain was released with 108 other prisoners of war.
 * 1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.


 * Born/died this day: | Matilda of Ringelheim |d|968| John Sigismund Zápolya |d|1571| George Wade |d|1748|Charles Ammi Cutter |b|1837| Ferdinand Hodler |b|1853| Thomas R. Marshall |b|1854| Karl Marx |d|1883|Phil Vincent |b|1908| S. Truett Cathy |b|1921| Diane Arbus |b|1923| Frank Borman |b|1928| Lies Noor |d|1961| Fannie Lou Hamer |d|1977| Jessica Gallagher |b|1986| Tony Benn |d|2014| Marielle Franco|d|2018|