March 2014 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 2014.
The US president was Barack Obama (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was David Cameron (Conservative), Pope Francis was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on March 2014: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 2014?

Events

01 Mar 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin asks the Federation Council of the Russian Parliament to approve the use of armed forces in Ukraine. He receives unanimous support. The Council demands that President Putin recalls the Russian Federation ambassador in the United States. (Russia Today), (CNN) (BBC),
02 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis, 2014 Ukrainian Revolution: Denis Berezovsky, Ukraine's Navy commander in chief, defected to the Russia-backed Crimea government. (Ria Novosty via inSerbia). Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turkchynov claims that Ukraine's airspace is closed to non-civilian aircraft.
03 Mar 2014 According to reports, the commander of the Ukrainian frigate Hetman Shaydachniy confirmed that the ship never left for Russia as was reported in Russian media.
04 Mar 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a press conference. He stated that "force isn’t necessary right now" after having deployed roughly 16,000 troops in Crimea.
05 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: UN Envoy Robert Serry ordered to flee Crimea under gunpoint by 10 armed men. (AP) Washington-based anchor Liz Wahl resigns from RT, a Russian-backed news channel. She claims she can't be part of a network "that whitewashes Vladimir Putin's actions".
06 Mar 2014 Pope Francis recognizes that civil unions of LGBT people are a government move to manage economic and health.
07 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Russian-trained armed men attempt to seize an Ukrainian military base at Sevastopol. They are soon to withdraw. Turkey scrambles fighter planes following a Russian surveillance aircraft that flew along its Black Sea coast.
08 Mar 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Malaysia Airlines loses contact to a Boeing 777 200ER passenger plane carrying 239 passengers from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing in China.
09 Mar 2014 42 people are killed by a suicide car bomber at a Hillah police station, Iraq.
10 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Just a dozen pro-Russian soldiers take control of the Ukrainian naval station near Bakhchysarai.
11 Mar 2014 Nils Horner, Swedish Radio's foreign correspondent, was killed by gunmen in Kabul Afghanistan.
12 Mar 2014 After attacking the former headquarters of the National Directorate of Security in Kandahar (Afghanistan), a group of Afghan police officers and private commandos kills three Taliban insurgents. Police deny that the Taliban claimed they killed five policemen and four commandos.
13 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Ukrainian leaders in the Kherson Oblast threaten all power and water supply to Crimea if the referendum is not approved. (FOX).Russian troops are reassembled near the Ukrainian border as new military operations are launched.
14 Mar 2014 Numerous people are killed in attacks across Pakistan, with the worst violence concentrated in Quetta and Peshawar.
15 Mar 2014 Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, stated that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was intentionally steered off course. He then flew for nearly seven more hours.
16 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean referendum: Crimea voters overwhelmingly vote to leave Ukraine and join Russia. The United States, the European Union and Ukraine condemn the referendum which didn't give voters the choice of the status quo.
17 Mar 2014 The United States Navy SEALs retake a disavowed tanker of oil in international waters that were previously seized by Libyan rebels.
18 Mar 2014 An attack on Simferopol, a main Crimean city, results in the death of a Ukrainian military officer.
19 Mar 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Russian forces take over the Ukrainian Navy Headquarters in Sevastopol, and an additional naval base. (AFP via Google), (AP),
20 Mar 2014 Afghanistan War (2001-present).:: 2014 Kabul Serena Hotel Attack: At least 9 people were killed when four suspected Taliban members attacked the luxury Kabul Serena Hotel. (Yahoo News). A suicide bomber attacked a Jalalabad police station, resulting in at most 11 deaths and 22 injuries.
21 Mar 2014 Insurgency in Iraq (post-U.S. withdrawal:: Gunmen attack a Baghdad police headquarters and suicide bombers strike across Iraq, killing 25 and injuring many others.
22 Mar 2014 Post-civil War Violence in Libya: The Libyan National Army fights rebels occupying oil port near Benghazi.
23 Mar 2014 Turkish F-16s shot down a Syrian military plane for violating Turkish airspace. Spokesman for the Syrian Arab Republic denied this claim, claiming that the aircraft was in Syrian Airspace at the time it was shot down.
24 Mar 2014 An attack on a military checkpoint, in eastern Yemen, kills twenty soldiers.
25 Mar 2014 Oklahoma City Girl Scouts reported that they sold 18,107 boxes cookies to break the 18,000.
26 Mar 2014 After hitting a 10-year old child with a tear gas canister, a police officer injure him severely at close range. The incident occurred at the Peace and Democracy Party's Diyarbakir event.
27 Mar 2014 Six people are killed in a dispute over family property in Beijing, China.
28 Mar 2014 Russia announced that it would increase the price Ukraine pays to buy Russian natural gas by 80%.
29 Mar 2014 The Driehaus Prize is won by Pier Carlo Bontempi, an Italian architect.
30 Mar 2014 The Republic of the Philippines has filed a case before an international tribunal in The Hague to bring its case against China in relation to competing South China Sea claims.
31 Mar 2014 Korean maritime border incidents: North and South Korea exchange artillery firing across the sea boundary.
01 Mar 2014 Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.