March 14

Today in History
• 1489 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, sold her kingdom to Venice
• 1590 - Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League
• 1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
• 1689 - Scotland dismisses William III and Mary Stuart as king and queen
• 1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall
• 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin
• 1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the Gold Standard Act


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Constitution Day in Andorra
• Legal Assistants Day
• National Organize Your Home Office Day
• National Pi Day
• National Potato Chip Day
• National Write Your Story Day
• Science Education Day
• White Day

Birthdays
• 1800 - James Bogardus, U.S. inventor/builder, made cast-iron buildings
• 1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway
• 1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia, 1849-61, Italy, 1861-78
• 1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (1843-89)
• 1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st U.S. woman dentist, 1866
• 1844 - King Umberto I, of Italy, 1878-1900
• 1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, D, 28th Vice President, 1913-21
• 1879 - Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921