Historical events that occurred on March 14

• 1519 - Hernan Cortes landed in the Gulf of Mexico with 700 men to complete the conquest of the country. 
• 1558 - Ferdinand I assumes the title of Holy Roman Emperor even without the blessing of the Pope. 
• 1840 - Pope Pius IX promulgated the constitution in Rome. 
• 1844 - D. Pedro II amnesty leaders of the revolution of 1842. 
• 1918 - The Soviet government establishes its headquarters in Moscow and settled in the Kremlin. 
• 1938 - One of the most important leaders and theoretician of the Soviet Revolution, Nikolai Bukharin is executed on the orders of Josef Stalin, after being accused of spying on behalf of Western powers. 
• 1939 - The Republic of Czechoslovakia is dissolved, paving the way for Nazi occupation. 
• 1948 - The U.S. Senate approved the Marshall Plan. 
• 1964 - Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in November 1963. 
• 1981 - I was born. Luciana Teixeira de Almeida
• 1983 - OPEC agrees to reduce oil prices by 15%. The measure was the first of its kind in its 23 year history. 
• 1984 - Guerrillas attack the Colombian city of Florencia, killing 32 people. The government decreed a state of siege in the region. 
• 1985 - Tancredo Neves is admitted for surgery for diverticulitis. The president elected by the Electoral College died on April 21 of that year. 
• 1991 - President Fernando Collor de Melo Launches Project for National Reconstruction. 
• 1995 - Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to board a Russian rocket. He and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz departs toward the space station Mir. 
• 2002 - Serbia and Montenegro, the two republics that make up the Yugoslav federation, sign an agreement to restructure their institutions and formally abandon the name Yugoslavia. 
• 2004 - Russia announces re-election of Vladimir Putin in presidential elections, with 71% of the vote. 

Births

Teresa Cristina Maria of Bourbon (1822-1889), Brazilian empress
Castro Alves (1847-1871), poet from Bahia
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German physicist, Nobel Prize in 1922
Michael Caine (1933 -), English actor
Glauber Rocha (1939-1981), Brazilian filmmaker

Luciana Teixeira de Almeida (1981-)
Albert Grimaldi (1958 -), son of Prince Rainier III of Monaco
Raimundo Ferreira Ramos Junior (1970 -), Junior Baiano, football player

Deaths

968 - Santa Matilde
1682 - Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter
1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher
1932 - George Eastman, founder of the American photographer Kodak
2003 - Cyll Farney, the Brazilian actor