Albert Einstein Arrives in New York

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Artistic Gymnastics - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 8

Simone Biles

1997 -

American gymnast whose record 11 Olympic medals (including seven golds) cemented her GOAT status in the sport.

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Billy Crystal

1948 -

Comedian, actor and frequent Oscar host. Plays everyman hero in "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers."

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Stephen Curry

1988 -

Star NBA point guard and three-point-shot master who led the Golden State Warriors to four league championships.

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UK’s House of Commons adjourns so members can go see 14-year-old thespian prodigy William Henry West Betty, aka “Master Betty,” play Hamlet. The teen phenom scored rave reviews, seat stampedes and even a dinner with the king—til fans started hissing.

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Alexander Hamilton is named captain of artillery company

On March 14, 1776, Alexander Hamilton receives his commission as captain of a New York artillery company. Throughout the rest of 1776, Captain Hamilton established himself as a great military leader as he directed his artillery company in several battles in and around New York City. In March 1777, Hamilton’s performance came to the attention […]

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Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte becomes the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school

On March 18, 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte becomes the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school. She was top of her class at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. As an eight-year-old on Nebraska’s Omaha Reservation, La Flesche experienced a formative moment: staying at the bedside of an elderly Omaha woman […]

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Mack Truck founder killed in car crash

John “Jack” Mack, who co-founded Mack Trucks, Inc.—then known as the Mack Brothers Company—with his brothers Augustus and William, is killed when his car collides with a trolley in Pennsylvania on March 14, 1924. After the Mack brothers sold their company to investors in 1911, it continued to flourish, becoming one of North America’s largest […]

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The FBI debuts “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list

The Federal Bureau of Investigation institutes the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in an effort to publicize particularly dangerous fugitives. The creation of the program arose out of a wire service news story in 1949 about the “toughest guys” the FBI wanted to capture. The story drew so much public attention that the “Ten Most […]

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U.S. senator smears actress Ingrid Bergman for extramarital affair

In a burst of caustic, moralistic grandstanding, U.S. Senator Edwin C. “Big Ed” Johnson of Colorado launches a verbal attack on Swedish movie star Ingrid Bergman for her extramarital affair with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The fiery senator also calls for the licensing of performers and filmmakers, so that they can lose their license […]

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Nikita Khrushchev begins his rise to power

The Soviet government announces that Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev’s selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union—an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party in […]

First Gold Record awarded to Perry Como for “Catch a Falling Star”

On March 14, 1958, the RIAA awards its first official Gold Record to Perry Como for his smash-hit single “Catch A Falling Star.” For as long as most people have been buying popular music on records, tapes and compact discs, the records, tapes and disks they’ve bought have carried labels like “Certified Gold!” and “Double […]

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Jack Ruby sentenced to death for murdering Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald—the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy—is found guilty of the “murder with malice” of Oswald and sentenced to die in the electric chair. It was the first courtroom verdict to be televised in U.S. history. On November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy’s […]

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JFK’s body moved to permanent gravesite

On March 14, the body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a spot just a few feet away from its original interment site at Arlington National Cemetery. The slain president had been assassinated more than three years earlier, on November 22, 1963. Although JFK never specified where he wanted to be buried, most […]

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Judy Chicago unveils controversial feminist art installation “The Dinner Party”

On March 14, 1979, Judy Chicago’s art installation “The Dinner Party” opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The piece remains one of the most famous—and controversial—works of feminist art. “The Dinner Party” consists of ceremonial place settings for 39 real and mythical women from history. These place settings sit atop a massive […]

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Judy Chicago und die "Dinner Party

Cult commits murder at Rancho Santa Elena

Cult leader Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo sacrifices another human victim at his remote Mexican desert compound Rancho Santa Elena. When the victim didn’t beg for mercy before dying, Constanzo sent his people out to find another subject for torture and death. When they abducted American college student Mark Kilroy outside a bar in Matamoros, Mexico, Constanzo inadvertently […]

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Mikhail Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union

The Congress of People’s Deputies elects General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991. Gorbachev’s election in 1990 was far different […]

Birmingham Six released from prison

In the face of widespread questioning of their guilt, British authorities release the so-called “Birmingham Six,” six Irish men who had been sent to prison 16 years earlier for the 1974 terrorist bombings of two Birmingham, England, pubs. On November 21, 1974, two Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombs exploded in two separate Birmingham pubs, killing […]

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Birmingham Six

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