Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille ordered her 150 000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. 1647 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Neutrality. 1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty. 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru. 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified placing United States currency on the gold standard. 1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Columbian Senate would later reject the treaty. 1915 - World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden. 1923 - Pete Parker does the first ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. 1979 - In China, a Trident aircraft crashes into a factory near Beijing killing at least 200. 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others. 1984 - Gerry Adams is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. 1989 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of assault rifles into the United States. 1991 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence. 1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. 1996 - American President Bill Clinton commits $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists. 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran. Births 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (+ 1767) 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr, composer (+ 1849) 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, painter (+ 1918) 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 (+ 1915) 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, writer (+ 1951) 1879 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (+ 1955) 1887 - Sylvia Beach, publisher (+ 1962) 1912 - Les Brown, band leader (+ 2001) 1916 - Horton Foote, writer 1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (+ 2001) 1933 - Michael Caine, actor 1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, director, Das Boot 1947 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian 1958 - Prince Albert of Monaco 1961 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player 1965 - Kevin Brown, baseball player 1983 - Taylor Hanson, Musician in the Group Hanson, Record producer 1986 - Jamie Bell, actor Deaths 1883 - Karl Marx, political theorist 1932 - George Eastman, inventor 1973 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie) 1975 - Susan Hayward, actress 1976 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director 1991 - Doc Pomus, composer 1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director 2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, publisher Holidays and observances Pi Day - unofficial holiday Roman Empire - Equirria, horses races in honor of Mars were held. See Also: March 13 - March 15 - February 14 - April 14 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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