Daily Calendar for March 14th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1790s

• 1794: Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

1800s

• Born 1804: Johann Strauss, the Elder (composer)

1830s

• Born 1833: Lucy Hobbs Taylor (first U.S. woman dentist)

1860s

• Born 1864: John Luther "Casey" Jones (railroad engineer)

1870s

• Born 1879: Albert Einstein (physicist)

1890s

• Died 1899: Emile Erckmann (novelist)

1900s

• 1900: U.S. Congress adopted the gold standard

• 1903: Pelican Island (Fla.) became first National Wildlife Refuge

1910s

• Born 1912: Lester Brown (bandleader)

• 1916: Women granted the right to vote in Saskatchewan

• 1917: Germany began retreat to Hindenburg Line (WWI)

• 1918: First U.S. concrete seagoing ship, S.S. Faith, launched, Redwood City, California

• Born 1919: Max Shulman (novelist)

1920s

• Born 1920: Hank Ketcham (cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace)

• 1923: U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report

• Born 1928: Frank Borman (astronaut)

1930s

• Born 1933: Michael Caine (actor)

• Born 1933: Quincy Jones (musician)

• 1935: Shirley Temple left her footprints and handprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood

1940s

• 1945: The U.S. Army Air Corp began bombing Osaka, Japan (WWII)

• Born 1948: Billy Crystal (actor)

1950s

• 1958: Possible UFO sighted in Healdsburg, California

1960s

• Born 1961: Kirby Puckett (baseball player)

• 1964: Jack Ruby was found guilty in Dallas of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy

• 1968: Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, aired its last episode

1980s

• 1983: OPEC agreed to lower the benchmark price for crude oil by 15%. It marked the first price cut since the group's formation in 1960

• 1984: Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge founded in Manteo, North Carolina

• 1984: Marc Garneau chosen as first Canadian astronaut to go into space

• 1989: Lebanese hijacker, Fawaz Younis, brought to U.S. to stand trial, found guilty of air piracy in 1985 hijacking

1990s

• 1990: The Soviet Congress elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the country's presidency, one day after clearing the post

• Born 1997: Simone Biles (Olympic gymnast)

2000s

• Died 2002: Henry Woods (federal judge)

• Died 2002: Thomas Winship (editor of the Boston Globe from 1965-1984, Pulitzer Prize winner)

2010s

• Died 2010: Peter Graves (actor)

• 2011: Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love, Tom Waits, Jac Holzman, Art Rupe, and Leon Russell were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Died 2018: Stephen Hawking (physicist)