The Advance

Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: News

Billy Crystal

Cotton Gin

1743 - The first town meeting is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.\

1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

1883 - Karl Marx, Prussian political theorist, economist, and sociologist whose ideas formed the basis of communism,
dies in London, England, at the age of 65.

1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon".

1900 - The United States Congress passes legislation transferring all U.S. currency to the gold standard.

1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.

1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Births
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1921 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A

1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician
and composer

1948 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian

1950 - Rick Dees, American disc jockey

1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1969 - Larry Johnson, American basketball
player

1979 - Chris Klein, American actor

1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player

1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician,
member of Hanson

1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer

Deaths
1932 - George Eastman, American inventor and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)

1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)

2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)

Page 1 of 1

Article Tools