March 14

Today's Events

  • 1629
    Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
  • 1644
    England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
  • 1743
    1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
  • 1794
    Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
  • 1855
    1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
  • 1870
    Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
  • 1883
    Karl Marx dies
  • 1896
    Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952)
  • 1900
    US currency goes on gold standard
  • 1903
    1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL
  • 1923
    Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
  • 1931
    1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
  • 1935
    36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
  • 1948
    Freedom Train arrives in SF
  • 1951
    During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul
  • 1964
    Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
  • 1965
    Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
  • 1967
    JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
  • 1975
    Susan Hayward dies at 56
  • 1980
    Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
  • 1983
    OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
  • 1986
    European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)
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