Timeline March 1914

Events in March 1914 3

• 1914 The Wilderness of Zin survey Negev, Ottoman Palestine An archaeological survey of the Negev that doubled as a military mapping exercise for the British Army, with the excavation providing cover.
• 1914 – 2009 Norman Borlaug (1914-2009) Died 12 September 2009, aged 95 Borlaug was an American agronomist whose high-yield wheat varieties sparked the Green Revolution, credited with saving hundreds of millions of people from famine across Asia and Latin America. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for this work. He continued research and advocacy for global food security into his final years.
• 1914 – 1998 Octavio Paz (1914-1998) Died 19 April 1998, aged 84 Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and essayist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, died in Mexico City on 19 April 1998. His work, including The Labyrinth of Solitude, remains foundational to modern Latin American literature.