14th March

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Events

1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.

1891 The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".

1960 - The Government announced plans for a Thames Barrier to protect London from flooding.

1960 - Jodrell Bank's radio telescope in Cheshire set a new record, making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles. The previous record was 290,000 miles.

1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1991 - The 'Birmingham Six' were freed from jail after 16 years when their convictions for the murder of 21 people in two pubs were quashed by the Court of Appeal.

1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1996 - Joseph O'Connor, operator of the Devon trawler Pescado, which sank in 1991 with the loss of 6 lives, was jailed for 3 years.

1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated

2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

2014 - The death at the age of 88, of Tony Benn, Labour politician, MP for more than 50 years and former cabinet minister.

2014 - Thieves who had built a 50ft (15m) tunnel to a cash machine on Liverpool Road, Eccles, got away with more than £80,000. The complex nature of its structure could have taken months to excavate and echoes a similar raid in Fallowfield Shopping Precinct in January 2012. Police said they were looking for 'people acting suspiciously, possibly covered in soil.'

Births
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1914 – Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (d. 1999) “Compo” in Last of the Summer Wine
1924 – Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (d. 2012)
1933 – Michael Caine, English actor and author
1938 – Eleanor Bron, English actress
1942 – Rita Tushingham, English actress
1947 – Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs and Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts)
1947 – Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter and pianist (Oasis)
1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Helen Atkinson-Wood, English actress
1986 – Jamie Bell, English actor
1990 – Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
1990 – Peter Chambers, English rower

Deaths
1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1976 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1907)
2007 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2013 – Norman Collier, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
2014 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)

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