March 14<\/p>\n
1794 \u2013 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.<\/p>\n
1900 \u2013 The Gold Standard Act<\/em> is signed into law by President McKinley, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with\u00a0 the antibiotic penicillin<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 During the Korean War, United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the Chinese and North Korean forces for the second time.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 After a decompression accident requires decent to a lower altitude, increasing fuel consumption causing the plane to run out of fuel and forcing the crew to eject, ( all safely ) a USAF B-52 bomber, carrying nuclear weapons, crashes near near Yuba City, California.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 The body of President Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Cyclone Idai<\/em> makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods that kill over 1000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 14 1794 \u2013 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1900 \u2013 The Gold Standard Act is signed into law by President McKinley, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard. 1903 \u2013 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90724,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65773\/revisions\/90724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}