| 1629 |
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A Royal charter is granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| 1743 |
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First American town meeting is held at Boston's Faneuil Hall. |
| 1757 |
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British Admiral John Byng is executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty. |
| 1794 |
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Inventor Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin. |
| 1900 |
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United States currency goes on the gold standard. |
| 1903 |
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The Senate ratifies the Hay-Herran Treaty, guaranteeing the United states the right to build a canal in Panama. |
| 1912 |
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An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempts to kill Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome. |
| 1915 |
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The British Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast. |
| 1918 |
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An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratifies a peace treaty with the Central Powers. |
| 1923 |
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President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report. |
| 1936 |
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Adolf Hitler tells a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself. |
| 1939 |
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The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia. |
| 1943 |
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The Germans reoccupy Kharkov in the Soviet Union. |
| 1947 |
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The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines. |
| 1951 |
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U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War. |
| 1954 |
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The Viet Minh launch an assault against the French Colonial Forces at Dien Bien Phu. |
| 1964 |
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A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| 1967 |
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John F. Kennedy's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery. |
| 1978 |
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An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases. |
| 1990 |
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress. |
| 1991 |
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The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence. |
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Born on March 14 |
| 1804 |
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Johann Strauss, violinist and composer. |
| 1833 |
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Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist. |
| 1854 |
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Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize for medicine. |
| 1864 |
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Casey Jones, railroad engineer. |
| 1879 |
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Albert Einstein, German-born mathematician best known for his theories on relativity. |
| 1934 |
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Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, the last man on the moon. |
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