March 14
1743 - The first recorded town hall meeting in America was held in Boston at Faneuil Hall.
1794 - The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney.
1879 - Albert Einstein, the scientist who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany.
1939 - The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, soon to be occupied by the Nazis.
1950 - The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list made its debut.
1958 - Perry Como's single "To Catch a Falling Star" became the first RIAA certified gold record.
1964 - Jack Ruby was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
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.
1973 - Future U.S. senator and presidential candidate John McCain was released from North Vietnamese captivity after being held as a prisoner of war for over five years.
1990 - The Soviet Congress voted Mikhail Gorbachev into the newly-created and powerful position of president.
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. (Durst would be convicted in the shooting death of his friend, Susan Berman; he died in January 2022 while serving a life sentence in California.)
2018 - Stephen Hawking, the best-known theoretical physicist of his time, died at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76 after living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for 55 years.
Birthdays
26 - Olivia Dean (singer)
28 - Simone Biles (gymnast)
31 - Ansel Elgort (actor)
33 - Kailyn Lowry (reality star)
34 - Greta Onieogou (actress)
37 - Stephen Curry (basketball player)
39 - Jamie Bell (actor)
46 - Chris Klein (actor)
49 - Corey Stoll (actor)
51 - Grace Park (actress)
52 - Betsy Brandt (actress)
55 - Kristian Bush (singer)
77 - Billy Crystal (actor/comedian)
92 - Michael Caine (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 14
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored a record 53 points.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) played every minute of a game for the 47th consecutive time. The streak ended during the Warriors' next game.
1962 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings becomes the second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1967 - The AFL and the NFL held the first common draft. The two leagues merged in 1970. The first player chosen was Bubba Smith, a defensive lineman from Michigan State.
1972 - The Cincinnati Royals of the National Basketball Association announced that the team's franchise would be moved to Kansas City, Missouri at the end of the season.
1980 - A LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 athletes and staff members of the U.S. boxing team.
2005 - Major League Baseball gave a congressional committee about 400 pages of documents related to drug testing. It was also reported that Bud Selig would be willing to testify in hearings planned for March 17.
2017 - Muirfield in Scotland, the world's oldest golf club, votes to admit women as members for the first time in their 273-year history.
1743 - The first recorded town hall meeting in America was held in Boston at Faneuil Hall.
1794 - The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney.
1879 - Albert Einstein, the scientist who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany.
1939 - The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, soon to be occupied by the Nazis.
1950 - The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list made its debut.
1958 - Perry Como's single "To Catch a Falling Star" became the first RIAA certified gold record.
1964 - Jack Ruby was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
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.
1973 - Future U.S. senator and presidential candidate John McCain was released from North Vietnamese captivity after being held as a prisoner of war for over five years.
1990 - The Soviet Congress voted Mikhail Gorbachev into the newly-created and powerful position of president.
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. (Durst would be convicted in the shooting death of his friend, Susan Berman; he died in January 2022 while serving a life sentence in California.)
2018 - Stephen Hawking, the best-known theoretical physicist of his time, died at his home in Cambridge, England, at the age of 76 after living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for 55 years.
Birthdays
26 - Olivia Dean (singer)
28 - Simone Biles (gymnast)
31 - Ansel Elgort (actor)
33 - Kailyn Lowry (reality star)
34 - Greta Onieogou (actress)
37 - Stephen Curry (basketball player)
39 - Jamie Bell (actor)
46 - Chris Klein (actor)
49 - Corey Stoll (actor)
51 - Grace Park (actress)
52 - Betsy Brandt (actress)
55 - Kristian Bush (singer)
77 - Billy Crystal (actor/comedian)
92 - Michael Caine (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 14
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored a record 53 points.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) played every minute of a game for the 47th consecutive time. The streak ended during the Warriors' next game.
1962 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings becomes the second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1967 - The AFL and the NFL held the first common draft. The two leagues merged in 1970. The first player chosen was Bubba Smith, a defensive lineman from Michigan State.
1972 - The Cincinnati Royals of the National Basketball Association announced that the team's franchise would be moved to Kansas City, Missouri at the end of the season.
1980 - A LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 athletes and staff members of the U.S. boxing team.
2005 - Major League Baseball gave a congressional committee about 400 pages of documents related to drug testing. It was also reported that Bud Selig would be willing to testify in hearings planned for March 17.
2017 - Muirfield in Scotland, the world's oldest golf club, votes to admit women as members for the first time in their 273-year history.
