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• ... that Tilkka (pictured) is a former military hospital in Helsinki that now hosts a nursing home?
• ... that
  PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance
  , a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
• ... that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of
  Briar Creek
  ?
• ... that in 1942, S.K. Limaye was expelled from the Communist Party of India for having refused to support the British war effort?
• ... that
  Faust's Walpurgis Night scene stood inside Buchenwald concentration camp and was sketched by French Volontaires de la Liberté member and camp inmate Léon Delarbre
  ?
• ... that Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl, who won four Olympic golds between them, are nicknamed "The Two Tobis"?

• Chiquita and Fyffes agree to a merger that would create the world's largest banana producer
  .
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (aircraft pictured), en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, goes missing over the Gulf of Thailand.
• The International Criminal Court finds former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga guilty of war crimes committed during the Ituri conflict.
• The 2014 Winter Paralympics open in Sochi, Russia.
• The
  a referendum on secession
  .

March 14: New Year's Day (Sikhs); White Day in East Asia; Pi Day

• 1757 – British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed by firing squad when he failed 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.
• 1910 – Oil prospectors in Kern County, California, drilled into a pressurized oil deposit, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill (pictured) in history.
• 1945 – The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb (9.98 t) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railroad viaduct in Bielefeld, Germany.
• a naval battle as the former attempted to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly Islands
  .

More anniversaries: March 13 – March 14 – March 15

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