Today In History For March 14th

Today is Monday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2011. There are 292 days left in the year.

On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.

In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64.

In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death
sentence were later overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)