Friday, March 14th, 2014 TODAY IN HISTORY: 1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman Emperor 1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 1647 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. 1689 - Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen 1743 - 1st American town meeting (Bostons Faneuil Hall) 1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin 1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII 1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY) 1862 - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1885 - Gilbert & Sullivans comic opera Mikado premieres in London 1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon 1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendels laws of genetics, US currency goes on gold standard 1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) 1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is liquidated 1946 - American author and journalist The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh 1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF 1954 - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game 1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Comos Catch A Falling Star) 1958 - South Africa government prohibits the African National Congress 1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva 1964 - Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswalds murder 1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes; S Vietnamese troops flee Laos 1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 2005 - Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. 2006 – Comedian/Musician/Actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur, California 2013 - Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the Peoples Republic of China TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer 1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849) 1833 - John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) 1835 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) 1864 - [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity) 1908 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991) 1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) 1933 - Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite], London, actor (Alfie, The Dark Knight) 1933 - Quincy Jones Jr, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World) 1948 - Billy Crystal, Long Beach, New York, American actor, writer, producer (Soap, City Slickers) 1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerrys ice cream 1969 - Larry Johnson, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, NY Knicks) 1978 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001) TOMORROW 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty. 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his 1st New World voyage 1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on Britain 1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup detat never takes place. 1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River 1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union 1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC), NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) 1906 - Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd 1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1913 - 1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) 1917 - Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates 1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination 1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL), 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh, NC) 1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) 1956 - My Fair Lady opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs 1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty 1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybodys right to vote 1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles 1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix most spectacular guitarist in the world, US Mint stops buying & selling gold 1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution 1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 2003 - Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the Peoples Republic of China 2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed 2010 – Comedian/writer/actor Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris, France BIRTHDAYS 1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China 1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere 1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer 1767 - Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th US President (1829-37) 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848) 1873 - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him) 1887 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973) 1912 - Lightnin [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine) 1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart, shamed evangelist 1955 - Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-Were Not Gonna Take It) 1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot) 1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray) 1968 - Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth) 1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182) 1975 - Eva Longoria, Corpus Christi, Texas, American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives) 1975 - Will.i.am, American musician 1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot) 1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
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