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.

OTD March 14 - Albert Einstein
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1879: Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who developed the general theory of relativity, is born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire.

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