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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

March 14th

March 14 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 282 days remaining until the end of time.




1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin in his quest for the perfect dry martini
1896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House in San Francisco
1931 1st movie theater is built for rear projection in New York City. Here is a fine example of rear projection.
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances



1879 Appropriately on Pi Day, Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist/himbo 
1933 Sir Michael Caine, English actor 
1933 Quincy Jones, US composer/record producer/arranger/musician 
1948 Billy Crystal, US comedian/actor/writer/director/Jody Dallas 
1951 Jerry Greenfield, US co-founder of Ben & Jerry's 
1954 Adrian Zmed, US actor/TJ Hooker 
1958 Prince Albert II, sovereign prince of Monaco 
1968 Jan Sosniok, German actor 
1968 James Frain, English actor 
1972 Rossano Rubicondi, Italian actor/ex-Mr. Ivana Trump Boy Toy 
1975 Johan Paulik, Czech porn star 
1979 Chris Klein, US actor 
1984 Paolo Contis, Filipino actor 
1986 Jamie Bell, English actor/Billy Elliot 


1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), loses his chains
1932 George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), snaps a really wide panoramic view
1991 Howard Ashman, gay US song writer (Under the Sea), succumbs to AIDS
1999 Kirk Alyn, US actor/Superman in the serials, gets a better fitting suit
2010 Peter Graves, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), gets planted in one.



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