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Events on March 14

• 1794 Eli Whitney receives the patent in the USA for the cotton gin he invented, which removes seeds from cotton. This makes large-scale cultivation of the plant profitable in the Southern States. Slaves are needed and used for the harvest.
• 1875 The Bank Act is adopted in the German Empire, providing, among other things, for the establishment of the Reichsbank as of January 1, 1876.
• 1898 Grammar school students in Bern found the football club BSC Young Boys in Bern.
• 1927 The American airline Pan Am is founded.
• 1939 At the instigation of the German Reich under Adolf Hitler, Slovakia declares its independence from Czechoslovakia. Jozef Tiso becomes Prime Minister of the Slovak State.
• 1949 In its official gazette, the German Federal Post announces the establishment of the Central Postal Technical Office in Darmstadt. The new authority significantly influences developments in German postal services, such as the later introduction of postal codes.
• 1974 In Bonn, the two German states agree in a protocol to establish permanent missions of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
• 1982 Metallica play their first concert at Radio City Hall in Anaheim.
• 1986 The ESA space probe Giotto passes Halley's Comet at a distance of just under 600 km.
• 1991 The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe declares the applicable naming law unconstitutional, according to which a woman must take her husband's surname upon marriage if the two cannot agree on a name.
• 2002 The Microsoft-developed game console Xbox is released in Europe.
• 2018 The 24th German Federal Government has been in office since September 1949. The Bundestag elects Angela Merkel as Federal Chancellor for the fourth time with the majority of votes from the CDU/CSU and SPD.

Born on March 14

• 1853 Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter
• 1874 Anna von Gierke, German social pedagogue and politician
• 1882 Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician
• 1910 Ernst Schäfer, German zoologist
• 1930 Helga Feddersen, German actress
• 1940 Hans-Olaf Henkel, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
• 1960 Boris Pistorius, German politician
• 1972 Jens Harzer, German actor
• 1973 Betsy Brandt, American actress
• 2000 Henning Matriciani, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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