03-14-2010, 06:07 AM
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March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Johann Strauss Sr.
1879 ~ Birthday of Albert Einstein, physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1921.
1883 ~ Death of Karl Marx, political theorist.
1900 ~ The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard.
1942 ~ First successful use of penicillin to treat a patient.
1943 ~ The SS under the command Sturmbannführer Amon Goth began the 'liquidation' of the Kraków Ghetto.
1964 ~ A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1985 ~ Birthday of Eva Angelina, Porn actress.
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