QUOTE UNQUOTE
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein,
Nobel Prize-winning physicist born on this date in 1879 (he died in 1955 at age 76)
Today in history
On March 14, 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Also on this date
In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry.
In 1885, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” premiered in London.
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan.
In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
In 1990, the Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies elected Mikhail S. Gorbachev to a new, powerful presidency.
In 2001, inspectors tightened U.S. defenses against foot-and-mouth disease a day after a case was confirmed in France.
In 2002, the government charged accounting firm Arthur Andersen with obstruction of justice, in the first indictment in the collapse of Enron. (Although Arthur Andersen was later found guilty, its conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court; however, the damage to the firm’s reputation was enough to put it out of business.)
Ten years ago: Actor Peter Graves died in Los Angeles at age 83, four days short of his birthday.
Five years ago: Robert Durst, a wealthy eccentric linked to two killings and his wife’s disappearance, was arrested by the FBI on a murder warrant a day before HBO aired the final episode of a serial documentary about his life.
One year ago: The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that gunmaker Remington could be sued over how it marketed the rifle that was used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.