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What happened on March 14th?
Vladimir Putin secured a second term as Russian President
Matthew Jones
March 14, 2025
2004 Vladimir Putin Is Reelected as President of Russia
On March 14th, 2004, Vladimir Putin won a second term as President of Russia in an election widely criticized for its lack of transparency and fairness. While Putin claimed a decisive victory, international observers and critics raised concerns about the suppression of political opposition, media censorship, and irregularities in the voting process.
This photo shows Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila voting in the 2004 presidential election.
🗞️Today’s Headlines
Everything important that’s ever happened on March 14:
1964 — In a televised courtroom verdict, Jack Ruby was found guilty of assassinating Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing JFK.
1951 — United Nations forces reclaimed Seoul during the Korean War, marking a turn in the conflict.
1899 — German military official Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin received a US patent for a "navigable balloon," advancing aerial technology.
1826 — First Pan-American conference convened in Panama, uniting representatives from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Central America.
1794 — American inventor Eli Whitney, whom many mistake as being a Black man, patented the cotton gin, revolutionizing cotton production in the United States and making slave labor even more profitable.
🎂 Today’s Birthdays
On March 14, we’re singing to:
Johann Strauss I (1804) — Austrian composer known for his waltzes, including The Blue Danube, which became one of the most famous pieces in classical music.
Albert Einstein (1879) — German-American physicist whose theory of relativity reshaped modern physics and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Albert II (1958) — Prince of Monaco known for his dedication to environmental causes and modernizing the principality’s governance.
Stephen Curry (1988) — American basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history and a key figure in the Golden State Warriors’ championship victories.
🪦Who Died Today?
On March 14, we’re saying goodbye to:
Karl Marx (1883) — German philosopher and economist, best known for The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, which laid the foundation for modern socialism and communism.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev (1912) — Russian physicist who made significant contributions to the study of light and the development of the kinetic theory of gases.
Balto (1933) — Siberian Husky sled dog who became famous for leading a team that delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, saving lives during an outbreak.
Stephen Hawking (2018) — British theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on black holes and his best-selling book A Brief History of Time.
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