MARCH 14
1794:Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin, a device to remove seeds from raw cotton. The cotton gin will make the crop extremely profitable in the southern United States and, according to many historians, perpetuate the institution of slavery.
1743: The first recorded town hall meeting in America occurs at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Town hall meetings will spread throughout the New England colonies, a form of democracy still in use today.
1964: A jury in Dallas sentences Jack Ruby to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. The Texas Court of Appeals will overturn the verdict, and Ruby will die of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital in January 1967 while awaiting a new trial.
1743: The first recorded town hall meeting in America occurs at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Town hall meetings will spread throughout the New England colonies, a form of democracy still in use today.
1964: A jury in Dallas sentences Jack Ruby to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. The Texas Court of Appeals will overturn the verdict, and Ruby will die of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital in January 1967 while awaiting a new trial.
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