Daily Calendar for Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Events

• Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin – 1794
• U.S. Congress adopted the gold standard – 1900
• Pelican Island (Fla.) became first National Wildlife Refuge in the United States – 1903
• Women granted the right to vote in Saskatchewan – 1916
• Germany began retreat to Hindenburg Line (WWI) – 1917
• First U.S. concrete seagoing ship, S.S. Faith, launched, Redwood City, California – 1918
• U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report – 1923
• Shirley Temple left her footprints and handprints in the wet cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood – 1935
• The U.S. Army Air Corp began bombing Osaka, Japan (WWII) – 1945
• Possible UFO sighted in Healdsburg, California – 1958
• Gordie Howe second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals – 1962
• Jack Ruby was found guilty in Dallas of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy – 1964
• Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, aired its last episode – 1968
• 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 – 1983
• Marc Garneau chosen as first Canadian astronaut to go into space – 1984
• Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge founded in Manteo, North Carolina – 1984
• Lebanese hijacker, Fawaz Younis, brought to U.S. to stand trial, found guilty of air piracy in 1985 hijacking – 1989
• The Soviet Congress elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the country’s presidency, one day after clearing the post – 1990
• 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 – 2011