Today in History
1991 The Birmingham Six are released
The six men were wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings in 1975.
1979 Factory Plane Crash in China
A plane crashes into a factory in China, killing at least 200 people. According to some sources, an unqualified pilot had previously stolen the plane.
1960 The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York 15 years after World War II ended.
1942 For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin
Although some claim that the pioneering trials at Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary resulted in the first penicillin cures, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead is widely credited with the first documented successful treatment.
1910 The Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill in history
The spill lasted 18 months and released 9 million barrels of crude oil.
Births On This Day, March 14
1933 Michael Caine
English actor, author
1879 Albert Einstein
German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1854 Alexandru Macedonski
Romanian author, poet
1854 Paul Ehrlich
German physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Deaths On This Day, March 14
2014 Tony Benn
English politician
1980 Mohammad Hatta
Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia
1883 Karl Marx
German philosopher
1823 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
English Admiral
1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet
