Today, March 14, is the 73rd day of the year (74th day in leap year) on the Gregorian Calendar. The Zodiac sign for individuals born on this day is Pisces. On this day 1964 Jack Ruby was sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald had been arrested for the assignation of President John F. Kennedy. Also on this day in 1950 the FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program was established; in 1939 Nazi Germany declared the end of the Republic of Czechoslovakia; in 1936 the first issue of The Federal Register, the first magazine issued by the U.S. Government, was published; in 1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY and KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO had their first radio transmissions, and in 1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin. http://www.todayinhistory.com/s0-3-14-event-results.html
This day is 3.14, known as Pi day. Pi is a Greek symbol that is the the ratio of circumference to diameter for a circle, it is an irrational, transcendental number meaning it continues to infinity without a number sequence repetition. Pi was first introduced by William Jones and later popularized by Leonhard Euler, a Swiss Mathematician. Pi is often shorted to 3.14159265, but has currently been calculated to a trillion digits with the use of computers. http://www.piday.org
Albert Einstein as born on this day in 1979, and since he became a very well-known mathematician and physicist, it is very fitting that he would have been born on Pi day. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. His Theory of Relativity had a major impact on physics, and he is also well-known for the famous equation E=Mc2 E=energy, M=Mass, c-=the speed of light.http://blog.beliefnet.com/ourladyofweightloss/2010/03/jigsaw-sunday-happy-birthday-a.html
Albert Einstein as born on this day in 1979, since he became a very well known mathematician and physicist, it is very fitting that he would have been born on Pi day. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. His Theory of Relativity had a major impact on physics, and he is also well-known for the famous equation E=Mc2 E=energy, M=Mass, c-=the speed of light.http://blog.beliefnet.com/ourladyofweightloss/2010/03/jigsaw-sunday-happy-birthday-a.html
AP Today in History
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2000s
1900s
1800s
1800: Luigi Chiaramonti became Pope Pius VII
Holidays and Observances
Pi Day
National Potato Chip Day
Famous Births
Famous Deaths
2010: Peter Graves, actor, Mission:Impossible (tv show), Airplane (movie), at age 83.
1986: Marlin Perkins, TV host of Wild Kingdom, at age 80
1925: Walter Camp, football coach, known as the “Father of American Football”, at age 65
1883: Karl Marx, German philosopher, best known for the Communist Manifesto, at age 64
