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On March 14, 1900, Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.
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On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the great thinkers of the ages, was born. Following his death on April 18, 1955, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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| 1743
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The first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
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| 1794
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Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin.
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| 1883
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Political philosopher Karl Marx died at age 64.
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| 1900
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Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.
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| 1939
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The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation.
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| 1951
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United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War.
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| 1964
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A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
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| 1967
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President John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
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| 2004
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Opposition Socialists scored a dramatic upset win in Spain's general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they'd provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war
in Iraq.
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| 2004
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Russian President Vladimir Putin captured more than 70 percent of the vote to win a second term in an election that European observers said fell short of democratic standards.
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| 2005
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A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.
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| 2005
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About 1 million people rallied in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Syrian withdrawal and the arrest of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's killers.
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| 2008
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Protests led by Buddhist monks in Tibet turned violent, leading to an extensive crackdown by China's military.
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Historic Birthdays
Albert Einstein
3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955
German-American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
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| 86
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Georg Philipp Telemann 3/14/1681 - 6/25/1767
German composer of the late Baroque period
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| 45
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Johann Strauss, the Elder 3/14/1804 - 9/24/1849
Austrian composer of Viennese waltzes
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| 57
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Victor Emmanuel II 3/14/1820 - 1/9/1878
Italian king of Sardinia-Piedmont andfirst king of united Italy
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| 75
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Giovanni Schiaparelli 3/14/1835 - 7/4/1910
Italian astronomer and senator
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| 61
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Paul Ehrlich 3/14/1854 - 8/20/1915
German Nobel Prize-winning medical scientist
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| 37
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Casey Jones 3/14/1863- 4/30/1900
American railroad engineer
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| 82
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Algernon Blackwood 3/14/1869 - 12/10/1951
British mystery writer
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| 75
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Sylvia Beach 3/14/1887 - 10/5/1962
American owner of Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris
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| 70
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Adolph Gottlieb 3/14/1903 - 3/4/1974
American Abstract Expressionist painter
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| 78
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Raymond Aron 3/14/1905 - 10/17/1983
French sociologist, historian and political commentator
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Diane Arbus 3/14/1923 - 7/26/1971
American photographer
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