March 14th

• 1592

  'Ultimate Pi Day': largest calendar/digits of pi correspondence at 6.53am.

• 1743

  First American town meeting held in Boston's Faneuil Hall.

• 1900

  US adopts gold standard with the Currency Act.

• 1923

  Warren G. Harding becomes first president to pay taxes.

• 1926

  Train disaster in Costa Rica kills 248, injures 93.

• 1973

  John McCain released from North Vietnamese POW camp.

• 1994

  Mexican billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped.

• 1997

  68-year-old Gordie Howe signs with Syracuse Crunch. View Post →

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• 2013

  Xi Jinping becomes President of the People's Republic of China.

• 2018

  NASA study: Scott Kelly's genes alter after a year in space.

• 1910

  Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill.

• 1879

  Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is born.

• 1794

  Eli Whitney receives a patent for the cotton gin.

• 1914

  Henry Ford announces faster car assembly method.

• 1947

  Moscow reports holding 890,532 German POWs.

• 1998

  Earthquake leaves 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.

• 1924

  Mack Truck founder dies in car crash.

• 1950

  FBI debuts '10 Most Wanted Fugitives' list.