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Old 03-14-2017, 05:54 PM   #617
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March 14

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.

1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.

1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1903 – The Hay–Herrαn Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.

1910 – The Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

Births

1804 – Johann Strauss I♪ ♫, 1863 – Casey Jones, 1874 – Anton Philips (co-founded Philips Electronics), 1879 – Albert Einstein, 1912 – Les Brown♪ ♫, 1914 – Lee Petty, 1916 – Horton Foote, 1920 – Hank Ketcham (created Dennis the Menace), 1921 – S. Truett Cathy (founded Chick-fil-A), 1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, 1923 – Diane Arbus, 1925 – William Clay Ford, Sr., 1928 – Frank Borman, 1933 – Michael Caine, 1933 – Quincy Jones♪ ♫, 1934 – Eugene Cernan, 1939 – Raymond J. Barry, 1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, 1945 – Michael Martin Murphey♪ ♫, 1948 – Billy Crystal, 1950 – Rick Dees♪ ♫, 1951 – Jerry Greenfield (co-founded Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream), 1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 1959 – Steve Byrnes (racing reporter), 1961 – Gary Dell'Abate ('Baba Booey'), 1961 – Penny Johnson Jerald (' Kasidy Yates' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), 1961 – Mike Lazaridis (founded BlackBerry Limited), 1965 – Billy Sherwood♪ ♫(Yes), 1968 – Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables), 1979 – Chris Klein, 1983 – Taylor Hanson♪ ♫(Hanson), 1984 – Aric Almirola, 1986 – Jamie Bell, 1988 – Stephen Curry, 1988 – Sasha Grey, 1997 – Simone Biles

Deaths

1757 – John Byng, 1883 – Karl Marx, 1932 – George Eastman (founded Eastman Kodak), 1973 – Chic Young (created comic strip Blondie), 1975 – Susan Hayward, 1976 – Busby Berkeley, 2010 – Peter Graves, 2013 – Jack Greene♪ ♫
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