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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 - Gold Standard — 6 / 27

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1900: The Gold Standard Act is signed into law by President William McKinley, establishing gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money in the United States. Previously the country had used a bimetallism standard, which had allowed silver instead of gold.

OTD March 14 - Faneuil Hall

OTD March 14 - cotton gin patent

OTD March 14 - Albert Einstein

OTD March 14 - Karl Marx

OTD March 14 - The Mikado

OTD March 14 - Gold Standard

OTD March 14 - Lakeview Gusher

OTD March 14 - Henry Ford

OTD March 14 - Lee Petty

OTD March 14 - Hank Ketcham

OTD March 14 - PanAm

OTD March 14 - Frank Borman

OTD March 14 - George Eastman

OTD March 14 - Balto

OTD March 14 - Quincy Jones

OTD March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen

OTD March 14 - penicillin

OTD March 14 - Billy Crystal

OTD March 14 - Korean War Seoul

OTD March 14 - Kirby Puckett

OTD March 14 - Jack Ruby

OTD March 14 - JFK grave

OTD March 14 - Grace Park

OTD March 14 - Busby Berkeley

OTD March 14 - Chris Klein

OTD March 14 - Norman Thagard

OTD March 14 - Peter Graves

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