Today in History
Listings for Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Birthdays:
- 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
- 1864 Casey Jones
- 1879 Albert Einstein, relative
- 1879 Albert Einstein
- 1912 Les Brown
- 1920 Hank Ketcham
- 1928 Frank Borman
- 1933 Michael Caine
- 1933 Quincy Jones
- 1947 Billy Crystal
- 1983 Taylor Hanson
Events:
- 1629 Royal charter grants Massachusets Bay Colony
- 1644 Royal patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
- 1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
- 1870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
- 1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
- 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
- 1903 First national bird reserve established in Sebastian, Florida
- 1923 President Harding is the first president to file his income tax.
- 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
- 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
- 1983 OPEC cuts oil prices for first time in 23 years.
- 1994 Linux kernel 1.0 released.
That's all for today.