03-14-2006, 06:32 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Johann Strauss Sr.
1835 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian Astronomer.
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.
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.
1991 ~ After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" were freed when a court determined that the police fabricated evidence.
1997 ~ Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a torn knee tendon in President Bill Clinton's right leg; caused by a stumble at the Florida home of golfer Greg Norman.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|