On this day: March 14th
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On this day: March 14th
Events On this day: March 14th
- 1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1900: The United States currency is placed on the gold standard.
- 1910: The Lakeview Gulf causes the largest accidental oil spill in history. The spill lasted 18 months, and 9 million barrels of crude oil were released.
- 1923: First-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game.
- 1942: For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin. Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.
- 1960: The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time. 15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
- 1979: Factory Plane Crash in China. At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sources, the plane had previously been stolen by the pilot, who was not qualified to fly it.
- 1998: The earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and the public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.
- 1991: The Birmingham Six are released. The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings.
- 2004: Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia
Birthdays on this day: March 14th
- 1681: Georg Philipp Telemann (German composer)
- 1833: The first female dentist, Lucy Hobbs (1833-1910), was born in New York state
- 1854: Paul Ehrlich (German physician, Nobel Prize laureate)
- 1854: Alexandru Macedonski (Romanian author, poet)
- 1879: Albert Einstein (Physicist)
- 1920: Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace Cartoonist)
- 1933: Michael Caine (English actor, author)
- 1933: Quincy Jones (Producer)
- 1947: Billy Crystal (Actor)
- 1961: Kirby Puckett (Baseball Player)
- 1997: Simone Biles (American Gymnast)
- 1988: Stephan Curry (NBA Basketball player)
Deaths on this day: March 14th
- 1803: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (German poet)
- 1823: John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (English Admiral)
- 1883: Karl Marx (German philosopher)
- 1980: Mohammad Hatta (Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia)
- 2014: Tony Benn (English politician)
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