Today in history

On March 14, 1689,

William and Mary were proclaimed England's king and queen.

In 1743

the first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

In 1794

Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.

In 1879

physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

In 1900

Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

In 1907

President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from coming to the United States as part of a “gentlemen's agreement” with Japan.

In 1915

the German cruiser Dresden surrendered to the British during World War I.

In 1923

President Warren Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.

In 1933

Maurice Micklewhite, who later became actor Michael Caine, was born in London.

In 1939

the republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation.

In 1943

Aaron Copland's orchestral work “Fanfare for the Common Man” premiered in New York, with George Szell conducting.

In 1951,

during the Korean War, UN forces recaptured Seoul.

In 1961

Kirby Puckett, who would become a baseball Hall of Famer with the Minnesota Twins, was born in Chicago.

In 1964

a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John Kennedy, the previous November.

In 1967

the body of President John Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1968

it was disclosed that, after seven years of warfare, American combat deaths in Vietnam had passed 20,000.