March 14: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
2. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
3. 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
4. 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
5. 1903 - The Hay-Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
6. 1903 - The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
7. 1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
8. 1942 - Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
9. 1964 - A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
10. 1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
11. Famous Birthdays: Lucy Hobbs Taylor (American dentist), Giovanni Schiaparelli (Italian astronomer and historian), Paul Ehrlich (German physician, Nobel Prize laureate), Thomas R. Marshall (American politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America), Albert Einstein (German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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