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Today in history

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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.

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