March 14

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[edit] Events

1. 1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
2. 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
3. 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

[edit] Births

1. 1879 - Albert Einstein, Jewish physicist, (d. 1955)

[edit] Deaths

1. 968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen
2. 1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
3. 1883 - Karl Marx, Jewish communist (b. 1818)
4. 1946 - Werner von Blomberg,German field marshal (b. 1878)