On this day ( 14. March )

Day 1,941, 00:14 • Published in Japan Japan • by Imre Bertalan

1647: During the Thirty Years War, France, Sweden, Bavaria and Cologne signed a Treaty of Neutrality.

1879: Albert Einstein was born.

1891: The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.

1906: The island of Ustica was devastated by an earthquake.

1914: Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12˝ hours to 93 minutes.

1933: Michael Caine was born.

1939: Hungary occupied the Carpatho-Ukraine. Slovakia declared its independence.

1943: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.

1989: Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush.