HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Tuesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2017. There are 292 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded. 1931 – Alam Ara, India’s first talking film, is released. 1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.) 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German
pressure. 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. 1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”. 1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.’s first operational use of the
Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany. 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations
troops recapture Seoul. 1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. 1978 – The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies
southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani. 1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded
in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. 1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands. 1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version
1.0.0 is released. 1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted
coup d’état. 2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead. 2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt
in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.