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| March 14th |
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| About March 14th is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. March 14th is Pi Day (3.14). Births 1816 - William Marsh Rice, businessman, founded Rice University 1854 - Thomas R. Marshall, 28th U.S. Vice President 1879 - Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist (E = mc2) 1916 - Horton Foote, playwright (To Kill a Mockingbird screenplay) 1933 - Michael Caine, actor, author (Get Carter) 1948 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian (When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers) 1948 - Tom Coburn, U.S. Senator (Oklahoma) 1960 - Kirby Puckett, Hall of Fame baseball player Deaths 1972 - Len Ford, Hall of Fame defensive end 1973 - Howard H. Aiken, pioneer in computer engineering 2010 - Peter Graves, actor (Mission: Impossible) Events 1794 - Eli Whitney is issued a patent for the cotton gin. 1950 - The FBI debuts their ''Ten Most Wanted'' list. 1951 - United Nations forces recapture Seoul, South Korea during the Korean War. 1964 - Jack Ruby is found guilty by a Dallas jury of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. 1980 - A plane crashes near Warsaw, Poland killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others. 1991 - The "Birmingham Six" are released after having been convicted on questionable evidence and imprisoned for 16 years. 1994 - Apple releases the first Macintosh computers to use PowerPC Microprocessors, considered to be a major step forward in personal computers. 2002 - 125 vehicles are involved in one of worst traffic pileups in United States history on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia leaving four dead. |
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