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Saturday, 14 March 2015

Today In History [14th March, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
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Today in History
March 14

1629           A Royal charter is granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1743           First American town meeting is held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
1757           British Admiral John Byng is executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty.
1794           Inventor Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin.
1900           United States currency goes on the gold standard.
1903           The Senate ratifies the Hay-Herran Treaty, guaranteeing the United states the right to build a canal in Panama.
1912           An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempts to kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
1915           The British Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.
1918           An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratifies a peace treaty with the Central Powers.
1923           President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1936           Adolf Hitler tells a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.
1939           The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia.
1943           The Germans reoccupy Kharkov in the Soviet Union.
1947           The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
1951           U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.
1954           The Viet Minh launch an assault against the French Colonial Forces at Dien Bien Phu.
1964           A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
1967           John F. Kennedy's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery.
1978           An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.
1990           Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
1991           The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence.

Born on March 14
1804           Johann Strauss, violinist and composer.
1833           Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist.
1854           Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize for medicine.
1864           Casey Jones, railroad engineer.
1879           Albert Einstein, German-born mathematician best known for his theories on relativity.
1934           Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, the last man on the moon.

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