Today in History 3/14

1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1863: Casey Jones is born. He is famous for sacrificing his life to save lives during a train accident.1879: Albert Einstein is born. He was a genius, but he also had a great pair of legs. 1889: Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon." Zeppelins are one of my favorite vehicles and I wish there were more of them these days. 1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the US on the gold standard.
1904: Doris Eaton Travis is born. She is the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl.1910: The Lakeview Gusher, the largest US oil well gusher is vented to atmosphere in Lakeview, CA.
1912: Les Brown is born. His Band of Renown was born later.

1918: Dennis Patrick is born. He was a working character actor for most of his career, but I remember him best as Commander Yarnell in the MST3K episode Code Name: Diamondhead - A Quinn Martin Production!
1920: Hank Ketchum is born. He's the creator of Dennis the Menace.
1923: Diane Arbus, photographer, is born.

"Come play with us, Danny!"

1923: President Warren G. Harding becomes the first chief executive to file an income tax return.
1928: Frank Borman is born. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the moon.1933: Sir Michael Caine is born. He was never in an episode of MST3K, but he probably should have been.1933: Quincy Jones is born. He's produced more hit records than I've had hot dinners.
1942: John Bumstead and Orvan Hess become the first in the world to treat a patient using penicillin.
1943: Anita Morris is born. She played redheaded vixens in a ton of 80's movies and TV shows, like 18 Again, Ruthless People, and The Hotel New Hampshire.1943: All residents of the Jewish ghetto Krakow, Poland are murdered, either on site or in the Plaszow labor camp or in Auschwitz.
1948: Billy Crystal is born.
1950: Rick Dees is born. He did the song Disco Duck and the failed talk show Into the Night With Rick Dees.

1960: Kirby Puckett is born.1961: Penny Johnson Jerald is born. She played the cargo-ship captain, occasional smuggler and love interest to Commander Sisko on Star Trek: DS9.1964: Jack Ruby is found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1965: Kiana Tom is born. Her exercise programs were required viewing in dormitory lounges during my college days.1967: The body of John F. Kennedy is moved to its permanent burial place in Arlington National Cemetary.
1970: Maredith Salenger is born. She played Deputy Sharon Gare in the giant-alligator-terrorizes-Maine movie Lake Placid.

1977: Aki Hoshino is born. She's famous for looking really good in a bikini.
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.