On This Day In History | |
2004: Reelection of Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin, the intelligence officer and politician who became president of Russia in 1999 upon the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, was overwhelmingly reelected to a second term as president this day in 2004. | |
Vladimir Putin, 2005 | |
Biography Of The Day | |
Albert Einstein German American physicist Albert Einstein, born this day in 1879, had one of the most creative intellects in human history, developed groundbreaking theories of relativity, and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. | |
Albert Einstein | |
More Events On This Day In History | |
1969 The Beatles' Yellow Submarine became the rock band's 14th gold album. | |
1964 | 1964 In the first courtroom verdict to be televised in the United States, Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. |
1951 | 1951 United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War. |
1883 Historian and revolutionary Karl Marx died in London. | |
1864 | 1864 Celebrated American railroad engineer Casey Jones was born in southeastern Missouri. |
1826 | 1826 The first Pan-American conference convened in Panama with representatives from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Central America in attendance. |
1794 American inventor Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin. | |
1681 | 1681 German composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg, Brandenburg. |
Friday, March 14, 2008
March 14
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