Day in Engineering History Archive - March 14
Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there is a lot of
wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with
authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks
have been verified. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
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the person or event occurred.
March 14
The "ultimate" pi day occurred on March 14th, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds. When written in American-style date format, this is 3/14/1592 6:53.58. 1794: Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. 1879: Nobel laureate Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. 1900: Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act (Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971). 1932: George Eastman, of Eastman-Kodak fame, died. 1950: The FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program began. 1960: The British radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire set a new space record by making contact with the American Pioneer V spacecraft at a distance of 407,000 miles. 1971: The Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes. 1992: The Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspended publication. 1994: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was released. 2004: Daniel Tammet set the European record for memorizing and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours.
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