History for March 14

History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Casey Jones (John Luther) 1864, Albert Einstein 1879, Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut


Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond"), Eugene Cernan 1934, Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian


1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.


1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.


1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.


1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.


1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.


1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.


1958 - The U.S. government suspended arms shipments to the Batista government of Cuba.

1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.