1794: Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry.
1893: The Kiriji war, the civil war that has divided Yoruba land in West Africa (South West Nigeria) for sixteen years ends with the armies of Ibadan, Ilorin, and confederated forces finally disbanding. Up to 100,000 warriors fought on each side at their greatest strength and the number of casualties is unknown, the result was the weakening of all nations which made it easier for them to surrender to Britain’s colonial ambition.
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1942: For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin.
Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.
1958: First Gold Record awarded to Perry Como for “Catch a Falling Star”
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union.
1991: The Birmingham Six are released. The 6 Irishmen had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991. The six men were later awarded financial compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2 million.
1979: Factory Plane Crash in China. At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sources, the plane had previously been stolen by the pilot who was not qualified to fly it.
1960: The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time. 15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
2018: Identical twins were no longer identical after one returned from a mission to space.
Astronaut Scott Kelly spent one year in space, and upon his return, NASA found his genes had changed by 7%.
2018: English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who was best known for his work on the physics of black holes and for the book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988), died at age 76.
2021: Beyoncé won her 28th Grammy Award, breaking the world record for most Grammys won by an artist.
2021: Nigeria music stars and rapper Burna Boy and Wizkid each win Grammy awards– Burna Boy, for Best Global Album for Twice as Tall and Wizkid for Best Music Video for Brown Skin Girl.
Births on This Day, March 14
Simone Biles, 27 years
Simone Biles: The most decorated American gymnast, Biles is a three-time world all-around champion (2013–15), three-time world floor champion (2013–15), two-time world balance beam champion (2014, 2015), four-time United States national all-around champion (2013–16), and a member of the gold medal-winning American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She is 27 years old today.
Alexander du Toit (14 March 1878 – 25 February 1948)
Alexander Logie du Toit FRS was a geologist from South Africa and an early proponent of the theory of the ancient earth having two supper continents that collided to form a single continent Pangea, which later broke apart into today’s continents. After mapping South Africa’s geological formations, he traveled to South America in 1923 to test his theory and found as evidence the continuation of South Africa’s rock formations in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. He died at the age of 69.
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Scientists know him for revolutionizing physics with his general theory of relativity. He died at the age of 76.
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