03-14-2005, 06:28 AM
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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, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921
1883 ~ Death of Karl Marx, political theorist.
1900 ~ The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1923 ~ Pete Parker made the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was seriously 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.
1996 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists.
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