Alam Ara was released on March 14, 1931, and did well at the box office. The performance and songs received the most attention from critics, with some criticising the sound recording. Aside from its commercial success, the picture was widely regarded as a major milestone for the Indian cinema industry and Ardeshir Irani's career due to its status as the country's first sound feature. Although no print or phonograph record of the picture is known to exist, making it a lost film, it does have surviving artefacts such as stills and posters. The British Film Institute named it the most important lost film created in India in 2017.

Rohit Shetty (born 14 March 1974) is a Hindi film director, producer, and television personality from India. He is well known for developing the film franchises Golmaal and Cop Universe. Rohit Shetty is the son of Ratna, a Bollywood junior actor who has appeared in Hindi and Kannada films. He has four brothers and sisters. Bol Bachchan, Chennai Express, and Dilwale are among Shetty's other famous movies. Shetty began his career as an assistant director in Bollywood sensation Ajay Devgn's debut film, Phool Aur Kaante when he was 17 years old. 

Coca-Cola was initially offered in bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1894. Local shop owner Joseph A. Biedenharm bottle soda water in bottles he had on hand, which happened to be Hutchinson blob-top bottles stamped with "Biedenharn Candy Company, Vicksburg, Miss." The first bottles were Hutchinson bottles, which differed greatly from the much later hobble-skirt version of 1915 that is now so well known. A few years later, two Chattanooga, Tennessee, entrepreneurs, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, introduced the notion of bottling and were so convincing that Candler signed a contract giving them ownership of the technique for only one dollar.

From 1913 until 1919, Michael O'Dwyer served as the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India. When he was governor of Punjab, the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre occurred. Sardar Udham Singh travelled to London for approximately 20 years to exact vengeance for the atrocity, and on March 13, 1940, he shot dead former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O'Dwyer. On 13 March 1940, an Indian revolutionary, Udham Singh, shot O'Dwyer dead at a combined gathering of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society in Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, in vengeance for the carnage in Amritsar.

Muhammad Atif Aslam is a playback singer, songwriter, composer, and actor from Pakistan. He is most recognised in the Pakistani and Indian cinema industry for his blockbuster songs. He is recognised for his vocal belting technique and has recorded multiple chart-topping songs in both Pakistan and India. He primarily sings in Urdu and, on occasion, Hindi, although he has also performed in Punjabi, Bengali, and Pashto. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest playback singers in the Indian and Pakistani music industry, with a number of hit chart-topping songs. Aslam was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz by the Pakistani government in 2008, the fourth-highest civilian honour. He has also received a lot of Lux Style Awards. In 2011, Aslam made his acting debut in the Urdu social drama film Bol. After being nominated for the greatest vocalist in Pakistan, he received a star on the Dubai Walk of Fame in 2019. He was also named one of Forbes Asia's 100 Digital Stars, which will be published in December 2020. Aslam has a big fan base in Pakistan, as well as in neighbouring India and Bangladesh. He addresses his admirers as "Aadeez."

Shreya Ghoshal, often known as Shreya Ghosal, is a playback singer from India. She sang in Bollywood, regional films, and Indian soap operas such as Kasturi. She has also performed songs in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu, in addition to Hindi. Shreya Ghoshal is the daughter of a Bengali brahmin household. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a tiny village in Rajasthan near Kota. She won the children's special edition of Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma contest when she was a youngster. She is the only playback singer to have received four out of five nominations for best playback vocalist for her songs in the 2008 IIFA Awards.

Mauritius proclaims independence from Britain on March 12, although Britain's Queen Elizabeth II remains head of state. Mauritius gained independence within the Commonwealth in 1968, with the British monarch represented as the head of state by a governor-general on the island. Mauritius sought to expand its economy beyond sugar production in its early years of independence, but achieved only little headway.

Nimrat Kaur is a Bollywood actress. She was born in Pilani, Rajasthan, India on March 13, 1982. Nimrat Kaur has appeared in films in Bollywood, Telugu, and Tamil. She made her acting debut in the Hindi film Tera Mera Pyar. Nimrat Kaur was last featured in the film The Test Case as Captain Shika Sharma. Following a few minor appearances in films, Kaur featured in Anurag Kashyap's Peddlers, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement on March 12, 1930, with his well-known Dandi March. On April 6, Gandhi Ji arrived at Dandi, took up a handful of salt, and broke the salt prohibition as a symbol of the Indian people's rejection to live under British-made rules, and therefore under British tyranny. On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a daring march to the sea in protest of the British salt monopoly, his most audacious act of civil disobedience against British authority in India to that point. The Salt Acts of the United Kingdom restricted Indians from gathering or selling salt, a component of the Indian cuisine.

Stephen Curry, born March 14, 1988, is an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors (NBA). Curry, widely recognised as one of the best point guards of all time and the greatest shooter in NBA history, is credited for changing basketball by motivating teams and players to use the three-point shot on a regular basis. Curry is the older brother of current NBA player Seth Curry and the son of former NBA player Dell Curry. He played collegiate basketball with the Davidson Wildcats, where he established the Davidson and Southern Conference all-time scoring records and was voted conference player of the year twice.

Picasso met Jacqueline Roque at the Madoura Pottery in 1953, where he was working on his ceramics. Following her divorce, she married Picasso for the second time in 1961, when he was 79 and she was 34. Picasso was strongly influenced by Roque, making more works based on her than any other woman in his life—in one year, he painted almost 70 portraits of her. For the last 17 years of his life, Jacqueline was the only lady he painted. Roque shot herself at the mansion on the French Riviera where she had resided with Picasso until his death in 1986.

Albert Einstein, born March 14 1879, was a theoretical physicist of German origin who is largely regarded as one of the greatest physicists. Einstein is most recognised for creating the theory of relativity, but he also contributed significantly to the development of quantum mechanics. The two cornerstones of contemporary physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. The mass-energy equivalency formula E = mc2, derived from relativity theory, has been nicknamed "the world's most famous equation." 

Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Maino is an Indian politician who was born on December 9, 1946. She is the president of the Indian National Congress, a large political party that has ruled India for the majority of its post-independence history. She became the party's head in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and served for twenty-two years. She was re-elected in 2019 after her son, Rahul Gandhi, resigned.

Farida Jalal, who was born on march 14, 1949, is an Indian actress best known for her work in Hindi cinema. Jalal featured in approximately 200 films over his nearly fifty-year cinematic career. Jalal has garnered four Filmfare Awards and two Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards for her character-driven parts in indie film and supporting work in major Bollywood blockbusters. Jalal began her career with Taqdeer (1967). She went on to take main and supporting roles in a number of films during the 1970s and early 1980s. She is most known for her performances in Paras (1971), Henna (1991), and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), all of which earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.