Today is Tuesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2017. There are 292 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Former astronaut Frank Borman is 89. Actor Michael Caine is 84. Composer-producer Quincy Jones is 84. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 78. Director Wolfgang Petersen is 76. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 72. Comedian Billy Crystal is 69. Former senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, is 69. Radio personality Rick Dees is 66. Prince Albert II, ruler of Monaco, is 59. Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles is 20.
In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, which revolutionized the cotton industry.
In 1923, President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return, paying a levy of $17,990 on his $75,000 salary.
In 1951, during the Korean War, UN forces recaptured Seoul.
In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
In 1967, the body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
In 1975, ‘‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail,’’ a sendup of the legend of King Arthur, had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
In 1980, a LOT Polish Airlines jet crashed while attempting to land in Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a US amateur boxing team.
In 1991, a British court overturned the convictions of the ‘‘Birmingham Six,’’ who had spent 16 years in prison for a 1974 Irish Republican Army bombing.
In 2007, the Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he ‘‘was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z.’’