14th March

The events happened on 14th March are :



2004v : 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.



1969 : The Beatles' Yellow Submarine became the rock band's 14th gold album.



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 : United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War.



1883 : Historian and revolutionary Karl Marx died in London.



1864 : Celebrated American railroad engineer Casey Jones was born in southeastern Missouri.



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 : German composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg, Brandenburg.



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