On This Day
14 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1913 S K Pottekkatt, writer of Malayalam literature and a politician, was born in Kozhikode, Kerala. He was also a great traveller among the Keralites, who wrote many travelogues for the people who have been unintroduced to the outside world.
- 1931 India's first "talkie", Alam Ara, was released.
- 1993 India seeks INTERPOL's assistance in investigating the sources of bomb blasts in Bombay.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1879 Albert Einstein, German American physicist, one of the most creative intellects in human history, known for his groundbreaking theories of relativity, was born in Ulm, Germany.
- 1883 Karl Marx, historian and revolutionary, who wrote (with Friedrich Engels) The Communist Manifesto (1848), died at age 64.
- 1920 Hank Ketchamm, American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip, writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994, was born.
- 2004 Vladimir Putin, the intelligence officer and politician who became president of Russia in 1999 upon the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, was re-elected to a second term as president.
- 2018 Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, who was best known for his work on the physics of black holes and for the book A Brief History of Time (1988), died at age 76.
- 2023 OpenAI launches GPT-4, a large language model for ChatGPT, which can respond to images and can process up to 25,000 words.
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