Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14

On March 14:

Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle at Breitenfield in the Thirty Years' War

• 1647 - A truce was signed during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1794 - Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• 1964 - Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1984 - Gerry Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
• 1991 - Alleged IRA bombers, the "Birmingham Six", were freed.

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