TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

March 14, 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.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1794

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

1883

German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64.

1885

The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London.

1900

Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

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.