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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 14 March.

1. Royal charter grants Mass Bay Colony
2. England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now RI)
3. 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
4. Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
5. 1st train crosses Niagara suspension bridge
6. Calif legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
7. Karl Marx dies
8. Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1 - 1952)
9. US currency goes on gold standard
10. 1st natl bird reservation established in Sebastian - FL
11. Pres Harding became 1st pres filing income tax report
12. 1st theatre built for rear movie projection (NYC)
13. 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
14. Freedom Train arrives in SF
15. During Korean War - UN forces recaptured Seoul
16. Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of Lee Harvey Oswald murder
17. Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany
18. JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
19. Susan Hayward dies at 56
20. Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
21. OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
22. European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (540 km)

These famous people were born on 14 March.

1. 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer
2. 1804 - Johann Strauss, composer
3. 1821 - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archeologist
4. 1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist
5. 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Martian canals
6. 1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D), 28th VP (1913-21)
7. 1864 - Casey Jones, RR engineer
8. 1879 - Albert Einstein, relative, E = mcý (Nobel 1921), Ulm, Germany
9. 1912 - Les Brown, Bandleader
10. 1919 - Max Shulman, novelist
11. 1920 - Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, (Dennis the Menace)
12. 1922 - Colin Fletcher
13. 1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern Airline pres
14. 1933 - Michael Caine, Engl Actor (Blame it on Rio)
15. 1933 - Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We are the World)
16. 1934 - Eugene A. Cernan, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17)
17. 1942 - Rita Tushingham, Actress, Liverpool
18. 1947 - Billy Crystal, comedian (SNL)
19. 1958 - Prince Albert, Monaco