Today in History for 14th March 2017:
Historical Events
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – Farm Aid V
1994 – Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
1997 – Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 – Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
2013 – 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
Famous Birthdays
1874 – Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
1887 – George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1905 – Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
1939 – Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1953 – Tim McKee, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1967 – Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More and Mongia)
Famous Deaths
1590 – Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at Ivry at 30
1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1989 – Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
1991 – Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1996 – Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69