Unbelievable Events on March 14 In History

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1743 1st American town meeting is held in Boston's Faneuil Hall
1793 Lieutenant Governor Simcoe of Upper Canada passes legislation for the first time against the importation of slaves, after a black female slave forcibly transported to New York state to be sold
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1812 US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1899 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon"
1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
1907 By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1933 US Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation program
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1996 Sarah Dearmon born
1997 US President Bill Clinton trips and injures his knee requiring surgery2004 WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
2022 Dolly Parton removes herself from the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying "I don’t feel that I have earned that right”

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