🎯 Today’s Wisdom 👉
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In old age, the death of a wife,
Wealth gone into the hands of relatives,
Food depending on others,
These three conditions are equivalent to death for men.
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1647 – Bavaria, Cologne, France, and Sweden signed the Peace of Westphalia after 30 years of war.
1653 – Dutch Commander Johan van Galen defeated the British fleet in the Anglo-Dutch War.
1728 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau left Geneva for the first time.
1794 – Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin machine, which proved revolutionary for the American cotton industry.
1800 – Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti was crowned as Pope Pius VII on March 21st in Venice.
1826 – The General Congress of South American States met in Panama.
1834 – John Herschel identified the open cluster now known as NGC 3603, visible from the Cape of Good Hope.
1879 – Albert Einstein, the genius of intellect, was born into a middle-class family in the city of Ulm, Germany.
1912 – Italy’s King Vittorio Emanuele III was wounded in a terrorist attack.
1917 – The Chinese Republic terminated diplomatic relations with Germany.
1914 – Serbia and Turkey signed a peace treaty. Join the
1926 – A railway accident in Costa Rica resulted in the death of 248 people and injuries to 93.
1931 – India’s first talking film “Alam Ara” was released in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1954 – The Dean Bean War began, involving France, India, and China.
1960 – A communication was established with a US satellite in the British Antarctic setting a world record.
1965 – The Israeli Cabinet agreed to resume diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1983 – The group of oil-producing countries, OPEC, cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
1987 – After a bloodless military coup in Fiji, the government was overturned.
1988 – A special day for mathematics enthusiasts, ‘Pi Day,’ was celebrated for the first time.
1989 – F.W. de Klerk was appointed as President by the National Party, replacing P.W. Botha.
1990 – Mrs. Artha Pascal Travel became the first female President of Haiti.
1993 – Australian batsman Ricky Ponting scored two centuries playing for Tasmania at the age of 18.
1998 – Sonia Gandhi became the President of the Congress Party for the first time.
1999 – Carlos Moya of Spain became the world’s number one tennis player.
2000 – Mohammed Mustafa Mero became the new Prime Minister of Syria.
2001 – The United States extended sanctions against Iran.
2001 – Ratuvita Momedonu was appointed Acting Prime Minister of Fiji.
2002 – Serbia and Yugoslavia signed a peace treaty, and the army entered Gaza Strip.
2004 – Amendment to the Constitution to grant legal recognition to private property in China.
2007 – Agreement reached between India and Pakistan to start bus service between Kargil and Skardu.
2008 – The Victory Group acquired Britain’s renowned switchgear manufacturer ‘Creg and Derrickar’.
2008 – Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, was acquitted of corruption charges in Pakistan.
2019 – Special Olympics World Games 2019 began in Abu Dhabi.
2019 – Mumbai Foot Overbridge Tragedy: Five deaths, including two women, and 29 injured.
2019 – Successful testing of the Army’s increased strength, Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile.
2019 – Kartarpur Corridor: Positive India-Pakistan talks, consensus reached on several issues.
2020 – The National Institute of Virology, Pune identified 11 types of COVID-19 infections, and the government declared face masks and hand sanitizers as essential items.
2020 – Production resumed in the second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu.
2021 – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palaniswami issued the AIADMK’s manifesto for the assembly elections.
2021 – Over 39 people were killed in demonstrations in Myanmar that had been ongoing for more than six weeks.
2022 – Three people died and more than 20 were injured in a mysterious explosion in the Residency Road area of Jammu.
2022 – A high-level delegation led by Denmark’s Health Minister, Mr. Magnus Heunicke, met with Indian Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh in New Delhi.
2023 – DRDO conducted consecutive successful test flights of the Astra missile from the Odisha coast.
2023 – The third edition of the multilateral military exercise La Pérouse concluded in the Indian Ocean region.
2023 – A Russian SU-27 fighter jet collided with an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea.
2023 – DRDO’s indigenous Power Take-Off Shaft successfully conducted its first flight test on the Tejas LCA in Bengaluru.
2023 – Meghalaya’s first international film festival began in Shillong.
People born on March 14:
1833 – Hobs Taylor, the first dentist.
1879 – Albert Einstein, the famous scientist who introduced the theory of relativity to the world, was born into a middle-class family in the city of Ulm, Germany.
1895 – Gurmukh Nihal Singh, former Chief Minister of Delhi and the first Governor of Rajasthan.
1913 – S. K. Pottekkatt, renowned Malayalam writer.
1965 – Indian actor Aamir Khan was born. Aamir first appeared as a child artist in the film “Yaadon Ki Baaraat”.
Passings on March 14:
1883 – Karl Marx, a renowned German philosopher, economist, and the pioneer of socialism.
1963 – Jaynarayan Vyas, a prominent freedom fighter of India, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan, and a well-known politician of the Indian National Congress.
1986 – K. C. Abraham, an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress.
1997 – Veerendra Patil, a senior Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka twice.
2010 – Govind Vinayak Karandikar (‘Vinda Karandikar’), a prominent Marathi writer.
2018 – Narendra Jha, an Indian actor (Raees, Haider), passed away due to a heart attack.
2018 – Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and cosmologist, passed away at the age of 76.
2018 – Vasanth Vaidyanathan, a Hindu activist and radio broadcaster in Sri Lanka.
2020 – Ramchandran, a poet who conferred the classical status on Malayalam.
2021 – Renowned Padma Bhushan awardee artist Laxman Pai passed away at the age of 95.
2022 – Anil Joshiyara, former Health Minister of Gujarat and Congress MLA, passed away from COVID-19.
2022 – Indian educator Meena Swaminathan, in the pre-school education sector, passed away.
2022 – Kumudben Joshi, former Governor of Andhra Pradesh, passed away.
2022 – Attackers shot and killed international kabaddi player Sandeep Nangal Ambia in Jalandhar district of Punjab.
2023 – Senior journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik (78) passed away.
2023 – Lokendra Singh Kalvi (80), the founder of Karni Sena, passed away.
2023 – American jazz and pop singer-songwriter Bobby Caldwell (71) passed away.
2023 – American golfer Jim Ferree (91) passed away.
Significant events and festivals on March 14:
🔅 Maharishi Yajnavalkya Jayanti (Falgun Shukla Panchami).
🔅 Lord Shri Mallinath Ji Moksha Kalyanak (Falgun Shukla Panchami).
🔅 Actor Aamir Khan’s birthday.
🔅 Shri Veerendra Patil Smriti Diwas.
🔅 Shri Jaynarayan Vyas Punya Diwas.
🔅 Pai Day.
🔅 World Kidney Day (second Thursday of March).
🔅 International Day of Action for Rivers (27th).
Please note:
While every effort has been made to prepare this accurately, I am not responsible for any event, date, or other errors.
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