On This Day: March 14

This is the 73rd day of the year.

Fact of the Day: Most Wanted List

In 1950, the "10 Most Wanted" list debuted at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The list was an effort to publicize particularly dangerous criminals who were at large. From 1950-1998, 454 fugitives appeared on the list and 130 were captured. The only real way to get off the list is to die or be captured. Osama Bin Laden is on the list.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Matilda, St. Eutychius, and St. Leobinus.

Events

1743 - The first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.

1812 - The first War Bonds were authorized by the United States government.

1900 - Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

1939 - The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation.

1947 - Philippine military and naval bases were leased to the U.S..

1964 - Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald -- the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy -- was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair. (The decision was later reversed, but Ruby spent the rest of his life in prison.)

1967 - John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery.

1991 - The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, were set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence.

1994 - Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected to a second term as President of Russia.

Births

1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American, first woman dentist.

1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German chemist, 1908 Nobel Prize for medicine, invented chemotherapy.

1864 - (John Luther) Casey Jones, American railroad engineer.

1874 - Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born American magician, escape artist.

1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physics genius.

1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader.

1914 - Lee Petty, an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 60s, and one of the pioneers of NASCAR.

1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip.

1933 - Chicago-born Quincy Jones, musician and composer.

1933 - Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr.), London-born film actor.

1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut.

1948 - Billy Crystal, actor and comedian, born in Long Beach, New York.

Deaths

1883 - Karl Marx, German revolutionary, philosopher, economist, historian.

1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company.

1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist best known as the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie.

1989 - Edward Abbey, an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies.

2002 - Cherry Wilder (born Cherry Barbara Grimm), New Zealand-born science fiction and fantasy author.