Here are some historical events that occurred on March 14 in the United States:
- 1743: Physicist and inventor Benjamin Franklin invents the first bifocal glasses.
- 1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern United States.
- 1879: Albert Einstein, the famous physicist, is born in Ulm, Germany. He would later emigrate to the United States and become a citizen.
- 1900: The Gold Standard Act is signed into law by President William McKinley, establishing gold as the only standard for redeeming paper currency.
- 1923: President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to file an income tax return.
- 1964: Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
- 1980: The first season of the hit TV show "Dallas" ends with the infamous cliffhanger episode in which J.R. Ewing is shot.
- 1995: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian spacecraft.
- 2018: Students across the United States participate in the National School Walkout to protest gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
These are just a few of the many historical events that have occurred on March 14 in the United States.
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