On this day, March 14
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
1879 Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany.
1939 The republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia.
1962 Democrat Edward M. Kennedy launched his successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts once held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
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.
1980 An LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1995 American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
2015 Robert Durst, a wealthy eccentric linked to two killings and his wife’s disappearance, was arrested by the FBI in New Orleans on a murder warrant a day before HBO aired the final episode of a serial documentary about his life.
2018 Stephen Hawking, the best-known theoretical physicist of his time, died at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76; he had stunned doctors by living with the normally fatal illness ALS for more than 50 years.
2021 Female performers including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift swept the top honors at the Grammy Awards.
2022 Country music legend Dolly Parton announced she was pulling out of the nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hadn’t “earned that right.”
Today’s birthdays: Michael Caine, 91. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones, 91. Actor Raymond J. Barry, 85. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey, 79. Comedian Billy Crystal, 76. Country singer Jann Browne, 70. Actor Adrian Zmed, 70. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco,, 66. Actor Tamara Tunie, 65. Actor Elise Neal, 58. Actor Gary Anthony Williams, 58. Rock musician Michael Bland, 55. Country singer Kristian Bush, 54. Actor Betsy Brandt, 51. Actor Grace Park, 50. Actor Daniel Gillies, 48. Actor Corey Stoll, 48. Actor Chris Klein, 45. Actor Ryan Cartwright (TV: “Kevin Can Wait”), 43. Actor Kate Maberly, 42. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson, 41. Actor Jamie Bell, 38. Rock musician Este Haim, 38. NBA star Stephen Curry, 36. Actor Ansel Elgort, 30. Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles, 27.