Today in History - History - March 14th

1997President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery

1913John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

1964Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder

1889German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"

1987NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl

1836HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia

19904th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win

1993Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship

1794Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in the southern US states

1971Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV

1933Quincy Jones Jr, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World)

1820Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)

1933Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite], London, actor (Alfie)

1962[Anthony] Kirby Puckett, Chicago Illinois, MLB centerfielder (Minnesota Twins)

2009Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt (36) weds Brittney Cade at a private ceremony in Ojai, California

1946American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh

1906Film director D. W. Griffith (31) weds Linda Arvidson (21) at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts

2014Actress Jamie Lynn Spears (22) weds businessman Jamie Watson at the Audubon Tea Room in New Orleans, Louisiana

1995John Peters Humphrey, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate, dies at 89

1932George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), shoots himself in the heart at 77