A bit of March14th history…
1592 - “Ultimate Pi Day”: on this day at 6:53 am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US (pictured)
1899 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a “Navigable Balloon”
1904 - In landmark case, Northern Securities Company vs US, the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; 1st case in Roosevelt’s ‘trust-busting’ campaign
1950 - FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins
2018 - NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after 1 year in space, 7% of his genes are altered
A bit of March14th history… 1592 - “Ultimate Pi Day”: on this...