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On This Day

March 14

1989
Importation of semiautomatic assault rifles is banned by Pres. Bush.

1983
First time ever OPEC agrees to cut prices of crude oil.

1964
Kennedy Assassination: Jack Ruby is sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. The conviction was later overturned and he died while awaiting retrial.

1951
Korean War: The U.S. recaptures Seoul, the former capital of the Korean Republic.

1950
First FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List is announced.

1937
Jack Benny and Fred Allen meet on radio to settle their long-standing feud. This was one the highest-rated radio events ever broadcast.

1900
The gold standard for currency is officially adopted by the U.S. It had been in use unofficially since 1879.

1812
First U.S. War Bonds: $11 million in bonds are authorized by Congress to support the War of 1812.

1794
Cotton gin: Eli Whitney receives a patent for his famous invention.

1947
Billy Crystal, American comedian, "You look marvelous." TV: Soap (Jodie Dallas - TV's first openly gay person).

1933
Quincy Jones (Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.), American composer, conductor. He produced Michael Jackson's Thriller, the biggest-selling LP of all time.

1933
Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite), British actor. Film: Alfie (1966) and Sleuth (1972).

1928
Frank Borman, American astronaut. He was command pilot for Apollo 8, the first lunar orbital mission (1968).

1920
Hank Ketcham (Henry King Ketcham), American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (1951).

1879     d. 1955
Albert Einstein, German-born Nobel-winning physicist and mathematician who introduced the theory of relativity.

1854     d. 1925
Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th U.S. Vice-President (1913-21). Proclaimed "What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar" (1915).

1854     d. 1915
Paul Ehrlich, German Nobel-winning bacteriologist, immunologist. He discovered the first cure for syphilis (1910).

1835     d. 1910
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer. He discovered the "canals" of Mars (1877).

1975     b. 1919
Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrener), American Oscar-winning actress. Film: I Want To Live (1958). Her death was attributed to radiation exposure received from an A-bomb test near the filming of a movie in 1953.

1973     b. 1900
Howard Hathaway Aiken, American engineer, builder of the second digital computer (Mark I, 1944).

1973     b. 1901
Chic Young (Murat Bernard Young), American cartoonist, creator of Blondie (1930).

1932     b. 1854
George Eastman, American inventor, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company (1880). He patented the first practical roll film camera (Kodak, 1888).

1883     b. 1818
Karl Heinrich Marx, German socialist and philosopher.

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