On this day: March 14
POSTED: 11:54 AM PST Mar 08, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Mar 13, 2013
America's first town hall meeting is held, Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin, Pan Am is incorporated, and JFK's body is moved to a permanent memorial, all on this day.
Library of Congress
1932: George Eastman, the American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company, commits suicide with a single shot to the heart at the age of 77 in Rochester, N.Y. Over the last two years of his life, Eastman had been in intense pain caused by a disorder affecting his spine.
