On This Day
14 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1913 S K Pottekkatt, writer of Malayalam literature and a politician, was born in Kozhikode, Kerala. He was also a great traveller among the Keralites, who wrote many travelogues for the people who have been unintroduced to the outside world.
- 1931 India's first "talkie", Alam Ara, was released.
- 1993 India seeks INTERPOL's assistance in investigating the sources of bomb blasts in Bombay.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1879 Albert Einstein, German American physicist, one of the most creative intellects in human history, known for his groundbreaking theories of relativity, was born in Ulm, Germany.
- 1883 Karl Marx, historian and revolutionary, who wrote (with Friedrich Engels) The Communist Manifesto (1848), died at age 64.
- 1920 Hank Ketchamm, American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip, writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994, was born.
- 2004 Vladimir Putin, the intelligence officer and politician who became president of Russia in 1999 upon the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, was re-elected to a second term as president.
- 2018 Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, who was best known for his work on the physics of black holes and for the book A Brief History of Time (1988), died at age 76.
- 2023 OpenAI launches GPT-4, a large language model for ChatGPT, which can respond to images and can process up to 25,000 words.
Select another date and know its important events:
View all important days of this month
What’s New
Top 20 Today
- R K Narayan Quiz (2)
- Scouts and Guides Quiz (2)
- Identify the Author Quiz (2)
- National Mathematics Day Quiz (2)
- Photo Gallery (2)
- Career Opportunities (1)
- How to Beat Stress (1)
- Career Planning (1)
- What’s it called? (1)
- Brand Logo Quiz #1 (1)
- Why You Should Have a Hobby (1)
- Ruskin Bond Quiz (1)
- We Shall Overcome (1)
- World Environment Day 2021 (1)
- Word Guessing Game #2 (1)
- Gregorian Calendar (1)
Top 20 All Time
- National Science Day Quiz (36,759)
- KVS Quiz (25,658)
- Best Quotes for the Morning Assembly (17,486)
- The Home-coming: Short Story by Rabindranath Tagore (13,621)
- Millets Quiz (12,788)
- International Women’s Day Quiz (12,466)
- Indian National Flag Quiz (11,901)
- Swami Vivekananda Quiz (10,563)
- General Knowledge Quiz (10,504)
- Constitution Day Quiz (9,732)
- Brand Logo Quiz #1 (7,453)
- Photo Gallery (7,193)
- Audio Library: Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago Speech (6,291)
- Word Quiz (5,700)
- Environment Day Quiz (5,122)
- Scouts and Guides Quiz (5,024)
- Veer Gatha Project Quiz (4,895)
- Books Recommended for Reading During Summer Vacation (4,375)
- R K Narayan Quiz (4,237)
- INTERPOL Quiz (4,218)
Quick Links
Digital Repository KVS Ernakulam Region
List of all Kendriya Vidyalayas in KVS Ernakulam Region
National Digital Library of India
Class X CBSE Past Question Papers 2015-25
Class XII CBSE Past Question Papers 2015-25
Class X CBSE Sample Question Papers 2021-2022
CBSE Sample Question Papers 2021-2022
Books for Middle-Grade Readers
Recent Comments @bookends
- Nisha Dhakad on Ruskin Bond Quiz: “Question are very important exam oriented” July 3, 2025
- on Swami Vivekananda Quiz: “It was a great quiz I acquired some knowledge from this tq” January 11, 2025
Views: Today 3 | Total 19,977