March 14 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 14
In the headlines today:

2004	Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia.
1998	'Fresh Prince' Will Smith begins a three-week run atop the US singles chart with 'Gettin' Jiggy Wit It'.
1995	Norman Thagard becomes the first US astronaut to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket enroute to the Mir space station.
1990	Mikhail Gorbachev is elected first President of the USSR.
1980	22 members of the US amateur boxing team are among the 87 people killed when a commercial jet crashes near Warsaw, Poland.
1968	Holy popcorn! After two seasons, the ABC TV network pulls the plug on Batman.
1950	The FBI launches their Ten Most Wanted list.
1936	The US government begins publication of The Federal Register.
1932	Kodak founder George Eastman dies.
1913	Spring wildfowl shooting and sale of wild game birds is outlawed in the US.
1903	The first game preserve in the US is founded.
1888	The Blizzard of '88 ends after three days of record lows and massive snowfall.
1883	Karl Marx, the Father of Communism, dies.
1812	The first US war bonds go on sale.
1800	Barnabo Chiaramonti is elected Pope Pius VII.
1794	Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin.

Born today:

1983 Taylor Hanson - pop singer, keyboardist (Hanson)

1968 Megan Follows - actress

1958 Albert Alexander Louis Pierre - Crown Prince of Monaco

1955 Boon Gould - guitarist (Level 42)

1948 Billy Crystal - comedian, actor

1946 Wes Unseld - NBA star (MVP 1969)

1945 Walt Parazaider - sax player (Chicago)

1928 Frank Borman - astronaut, Eastern Airlines president

1934 Eugene Cernan - US astronaut

1933 Michael Caine - actor

1933 Quincy Jones - composer, producer

1920 Hank Ketcham - cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)

1919 Max Schulman - author

1918 Dennis Patrick - actor

1912 Les Brown - bandleader

1879 Albert Einstein - scientist

1869 Neville Chamberlain - English statesman

1864 John (Casey) Jones - railroad engineer (subject of The Ballad of Casey Jones)

1854 Paul Ehrlich - father of chemotherapy

1844 Umberto - King of Italy

1820 Victor Emmanuel II - King of Italy

1804 Johann Strauss - composer

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

Pisces

(The Fishes)