page_title: March 1914
section_title: March 16, 1914 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1914 / March 16, 1914 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: French journalist Gaston Calmette (1858-1914)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1914:
context_section_description: Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, in his office, after fearing Calmette would publish letters showing she and Caillaux were romantically involved during his first marriage. She was acquitted on July 28.
  The Usher Hall opened in Edinburgh with composer Hamish MacCunn conducting the inaugural symphony performance.
  The Broadway musical The Crinoline Girl, written by Julian Eltinge, Otto Harbach, and Percy Wenrich, premiered at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City and ran until the end of May.
  Born: Charles Crombie, Australian air force pilot, commander of the No. 176 Squadron during World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross, in Brisbane (d. 1945, killed in a plane crash)
  Died: Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for leadership of the International Peace Bureau (b. 1843); John Murray, Canadian-Scottish marine biologist and oceanographer, considered the father of modern oceanography, killed in an auto accident (b. 1841)
caption: Gaston Calmette
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