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Today in History

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840Mar 14Eginhard (69), French nobleman, biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), died.
1559Mar 14Jacques d’Auchy, Walloon Baptist merchant, was executed.
1573Mar 14Claude II of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale, died. He murdered Huguenot leader Adm. Coligny.
1629Mar 14A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1644Mar 14Roger Williams of Providence, Rhode Island, was issued a charter in the name of the king, which connected the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport under the title of “the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay in New England.” A March 24 date is also common for this and reflects later use of the new style calendar.
1681Mar 14Georg Philipp Telemann, late baroque composer, was born in Magdeburg, Germany.
1692Mar 14Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician, physicist (Leyden jar), was born.
1727Mar 14Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, was born.
1743Mar 14The first recorded town meeting in America was held at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
1755Mar 14Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, was born.
1757Mar 14John Byng (52), British Admiral, was executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty. Early in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), Byng was called on to relieve a British fort on the Mediterranean island of Minorca which was being attacked by French forces. He was sent with a small, undermanned fleet. Several ship were badly damaged in subsequent skirmishes with the French, prompting Byng to turn back to Gibraltar. The fort was eventually forced to capitulate. He was brought home, court-martialled and executed for breach of Articles of War. In 2007 his descendants sought a posthumous pardon.
1768Mar 14Vigilio Blasio Faitello (58), composer, died.
1790Mar 14Captain Bligh returned to England with news of the mutiny on the Bounty.
1794Mar 14Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry. He paid substantial royalties to Catherine T. Greene and this makes his claim to the invention suspect.
1800Mar 14James Bogardus, US inventor, builder (made cast-iron buildings), was born.
1801Mar 14Christian Friedrich Penzel (63), composer, died.
1803Mar 14Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (78), German poet, died.
1804Mar 14Johann Strauss (d.1849), Austrian orchestra conductor and composer, was born. His son was also named Johann (1825-1899).
1812Mar 14The US Congress authorized war bonds to finance War of 1812.
1820Mar 14Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), was born.
1821Mar 14African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in NY.
1833Mar 14Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist, was born.
1854Mar 14Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th U.S. Vice President (Woodrow Wilson), was born.
1861Mar 14Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (58), composer, died.
1862Mar 14Battle of New Bern, NC. General Burnside conquered New Bern, a strategic port and rail hub.
1863Mar 14Asbury Harpending (24) of Kentucky, Ridgely Greathouse of Kentucky and Alfred Rubery of Britain set sail from San Francisco with 20 fighting men aboard the J.M. Chapman on an expedition to intercept outbound Panama steamers loaded with gold and silver and send the money to the Confederacy. They were quickly intercepted, taken to Alcatraz, and found guilty of high treason. Harpending was granted amnesty after four months in jail.
1864Mar 14Casey Jones (John Luther Jones), railroad engineer, was born.
1875Mar 14Smetana’s “Vysehrad,” premiered.
1879Mar 14Physicist Albert Einstein, mathematician best known for his theories on relativity was born in Ulm, Germany. He received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1921.
1883Mar 14Karl Marx (64), German political philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), died in London.
1885Mar 14Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera “Mikado,” premiered in London.
1891Mar 14A mob in New Orleans broke open a jail after a court dismissed charges against 19 Italian men indicted for the murder of police chief David C. Hemmessey. 11 of 19 defendants were hanged. The book “Vendetta” by Richard Gambino, and the movie of the same name, covered the event.
1898Mar 14Henry Bessemer (b.1813), English inventor and mechanical engineer, died. Bessemer developed the first process for mass-producing steel inexpensively.
1900Mar 14Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act for U.S. currency.
1901Mar 141st performance of Anton Bruckner’s 6th Symphony in A.
1903Mar 14The 1st national bird reservation was established in Sebastian, Florida.
1907Mar 14President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan.
1912Mar 14An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempted to kill Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
1915Mar 14The British Navy sank the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.
1916Mar 14In the Battle of Verdun Germans attacked on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun.
1917Mar 14China broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
1918Mar 14An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratified a peace treaty with the Central Powers.
1919Mar 14Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), was born.
1920Mar 14Hank Ketchum, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), was born in Seattle, Wa.
1923Mar 14President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.
1928Mar 14Frank Borman, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8), CEO (Eastern Airline), was born in Gary, Ind.
1932Mar 14George Eastman (77), US industrialist (Kodak-camera), committed suicide.
1933Mar 14Michael Caine, [Maurice J. Micklewhite Jr.], actor (Alfie), was born in London.
1934Mar 14Eugene Cerna, American Astronaut who was the last man on the moon, was born.
1936Mar 14Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany’s only judge is God and itself.
1939Mar 14Nash Kelvinator and IBM were removed from the DJIA. AT&T was again added to the DJIA along with United Aircraft.
1940Mar 14Rita Tushingham, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago), was born in Liverpool, England.
1941Mar 14Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra recorded “Babalu.”
1943Mar 14Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” premiered in New York, with George Szell conducting.
1945Mar 14Chile declared war on Germany.
1947Mar 14Billy Crystal, comedian (Soap, SNL, City Slickers), was born in Long Beach, NY.
1950Mar 14The FBI began its “10 Most Wanted” list after a reporter asked for the names and descriptions of the “toughest guys” the FBI would like to capture.
1951Mar 14During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
1952Mar 14J. Fred Muggs, chimp on the Today show, was born.
1958Mar 14RIAA certified its 1st gold record: Perry Como’s Catch A Falling Star.
1964Mar 14A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, the previous November.
1965Mar 14Israel’s cabinet formally approved establishing diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1967Mar 14The body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969Mar 14US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned under pressure for the acceptance of an allegedly illegal payment from a former business associate.
1972Mar 14Pres. Nixon remarked “It’s better to chase girls than boys”¦” after columnist Jack Anderson reported that Ambassador Arthur Watson had groped flight attendants on a trip home from Paris. A Congressional investigation prompted Watson’s resignation.
1976Mar 14Busby Berkeley (b.1895), US film director and choreographer, died.
1977Mar 14Fannie Lou Hamer (b.1917), Mississippi civil rights champion, died. She had helped register black voters when doing so put her own life in danger. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
1978Mar 14An Israeli force of 22,000 invaded south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.
1980Mar 14A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing  near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1982Mar 14In Guatemala in Cuarto Pueblo 309 villagers were killed over three days by government troops.
1987Mar 14President Reagan, in his Saturday radio address, said he should have listened to Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Sec. Caspar Weinberger when they advised him not to sell arms to Iran.
1988Mar 14Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir arrived in Washington, D.C., with what he called new ideas for Middle East peace talks, despite maintaining a hard-line on Israel’s retention of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1989Mar 14In a policy shift, the Bush administration announced an indefinite ban on imports of semiautomatic assault rifles.
1990Mar 14The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and West and East Germany held their first formal meeting on reunifying the German states.
1991Mar 14Speakers at a Los Angeles Police Commission hearing demanded the ouster of Chief Daryl F. Gates in the wake of the videotaped police beating of motorist Rodney King.
1992Mar 14Jean Poiret (65), French actor, writer (La Cage aux Folles), died.
1993Mar 14An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war on the country’s military.
1994Mar 14Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs. Clinton, resigned because of controversy over billings he’d charged while in private law practice.
1995Mar 14American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off  aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
1996Mar 14During a visit to Israel, President Clinton pledged $100 million to the fight against terrorism.
1997Mar 14Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn knee tendon in President Clinton’s right leg. The injury had been caused by a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at golfer Greg Norman’s Florida home.
1998Mar 14India’s Congress party picked Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as its new president.
1999Mar 14The Clinton administration conceded the Chinese had gained from technology allegedly stolen from a federal nuclear weapons lab but insisted the government responded decisively; Republicans demanded a comprehensive review of U.S. policy toward China.
2000Mar 14Pres. Clinton and PM Tony Blair said that the raw data of human genes “should be made freely available to scientists everywhere.”
2001Mar 14Doug Swingley won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska for the third straight year.
2002Mar 14The US Justice Dept. unveiled a criminal indictment against Arthur Anderson LLP on obstruction of justice charges in the Enron case.
2003Mar 14Pres. Bush promised to reveal a US “road map” to Middle East peace. It was contingent on the confirmation of a Palestinian prime minister with real authority.
2004Mar 14In southeastern Afghanistan U.S.-led troops surprised eight enemy fighters in a cave complex, prompting a gunbattle, which left 3 militiamen killed and 5 others wounded.
2005Mar 14The US government in Operation Community Shield announced the arrests in 7 cities of 103 members of MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha, a street gang rooted in Central America.
2006Mar 14A Washington DC judge ruled that the slaughter of horses for meat may continue in the US.
2007Mar 14President Bush, speaking from Mexico, said he was troubled by the Justice Department’s misleading explanations to Congress of why it fired eight US attorneys, but said the firings were “entirely appropriate.”
2008Mar 14The near-collapse of US investment giant Bear Stearns and its Federal Reserve bailout heightened fears that the worst is not over for the spreading global credit crunch. The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan Chase & Co. offered to extend loans for 28 days. The US dollar hit a record low against the euro, closing at 1.567 per euro.
2009Mar 14President Barack Obama said the nation’s decades-old food safety system is a “hazard to public health” and in need of an overhau. Obama used his weekly radio and video address to announce the nomination of former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as FDA commissioner, and his choice of Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein as her deputy.
2010Mar 14Peter Graves (83), film and TV star, died. His calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of “Mission Impossible” (1967-1973 and 1988-1990) as well as the satire of the “Airplane” films.
2011Mar 14US Border Patrol agents arrested two US citizens along with 13 illegal immigrants from Mexico dressed in fake US Marine Corps uniforms.
2012Mar 14Chicago-based Encyclopedia Britannica said it is shelving its print edition after 244 years in favor of it Web-based version.
2013Mar 14A US federal judge ruled unconstitutional national security provisions that permit federal investigators to access customer information from some companies without court approval.
2014Mar 14It was reported that Kevin Gorman (22) has become the official Wikipedian-in-Residence at UC Berkeley, the first post of its kind at a university.
Source: Timelines of History  

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