1489 Nicosia (Cyprus), History: Venice wrested the island into its empire.
1592 Nerdville, Science: Celebrated as Pi Day because when written in American format of month, date, year, this is 3/14/1592 at 6:53.59 am and pm, which corresponds to the first twelve digits of pi: 3.14159265359. It has two Pi’s on one day! That is overachieving.
1794 Savannah (Georgia), Technology: Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin which made profitable processing cotton on a large scale, leading to the plantation and slave economy of the south. Such was not his intention when he watched kittens playing and transferred the use of their claws to a box in which to clean cotton.
1919 Seattle, Literature: Prolific western writer Max Brand published his first novel, ‘The Untamed,’ about ninety other novels followed. Frederick Faust used twenty-one pen names, but Max Brand was the first one. He was largely an autodidact through reading. He also created Dr Kildare in a dozen more medical thrillers. A war correspondent in World War II, he was killed at Anzio in Italy.
1942 New Haven, Medicine: Drs. Orvan Hess and John Bumstead pioneered the use of penicillin for the first time in treating a patient, Ann Miller, who recovered quickly and lived to be 90.
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