History for March 14

History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Paul Ehrlich 1854, Albert Einstein 1879, Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut 


Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond"), Eugene Cernan 1934, Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian 


1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin. 


1891 - The CS Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel. 


1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. 


1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes. 



1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide. 


1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself. 



1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II. 



1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.