Today is Saturday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2009. There are 292 days left in the year. On this date

March 14, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2009. There are 292 days left in the year. On this date in 1794, Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionizes America’s cotton industry.

In 1743, a memorial service is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston honoring Peter Faneuil, who had donated the building bearing his name. In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx dies in London at age 64. In 1900, Congress ratifies the Gold Standard Act. In 1923, President Warren G. Harding becomes the first chief executive to file an income tax return. In 1939, the republic of Czechoslovakia is dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia. In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces recapture Seoul. In 1964, a jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentences him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence are later overturned, but Ruby dies before he could be retried). In 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1980, a Polish airliner crashes while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team. In 1991, a British court overturns the convictions of the Birmingham Six, who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

March 14, 1984: Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste and officials of the Cafaro Co. are planning a trip to West Germany to discuss plans for the Ronneburg Brewery proposed for Youngstown.

Deputy Law Director Edwin Romero informs the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees that the administration of Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro will not honor changes made in contracts just before Mayor George V. Vukovich left office.

The Reagan administration’s two top foreign trade officials recommend that an agreement limiting the import of Japanese cars to the United States be allowed to expire in March 1985, after being in effect for four years.

March 14, 1969: Initial plans for formation of a volunteer parents corps to combat rowdyism and other problems affecting East Side schools are endorsed by Judge Martin P. Joyce.

The State of Ohio asks the U.S. Justice Department to investigate and delay a proposed merger of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Lykes Corp. of New Orleans.

March 14, 1959: A.S. Glossbrenner, president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected to the board of trustees of Youngstown University during a meeting at the Youngstown Club.

Boardman Township trustees approve a zone request on Boardman-Poland Road permitting construction of a $1 million maintenance garage and office building for the East Ohio Gas Co.

March 14, 1934: The motor car industry, a leader in the parade toward prosperity, moves to heed President Roosevelt’s plea for slashed hours and higher wages. Average weekly hours will be cut to 36 from 40, with “compensating wage increases.” Henry Ford restores the $5 minimum daily wage.

Youngstown, Pittsburgh and Wheeling district forces combine to urge the Army engineers in Pittsburgh to approve a Beaver-Mahoning-Ashtabula route for a through canal linking the Ohio River with Lake Erie.