Once Upon A Time – March 14 – 1794 – Eli Whitney Patents Cotton Gin Machine, Revolutionizing Cotton Industry In Southern US States

1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

1900 Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel’s laws of heredity and genetics

1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act

1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”

2013 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People’s Republic of China

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Today In Film & TV

1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)

Today In Music

1885 Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic opera “Mikado” premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre

Today In Sport

2017 World’s oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years

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1950 FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins