MARCH 14 — 1950 J. Edgar Hoover debuts FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list; 1800 Happy Birthday James Bogordus (invented cast-iron building); 1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin; 1776 Alexander Hamilton names commander of artillery company; MUSIC: Michael Jackson performs last gig for HIStory tour, 1988 Bon Jovi goes #1 with New Jersey
MARCH 14
1950 – J. Edgar Hoover debuts the FBI’s 10 most wanted.
I think on this list John Walsh would make a better commentator than Ksey Kasem. There’s a $100,000 bounty for the people on this list, folks, except for two of them, one being Jason Derek Brown from Arizona who’s wanted for shooting an armed guard and taking off on a bicycle with 56,000 large in cash back in 2004. He may be either in France or Thailand, so kep your eyes open. There’s a $200,000 bounty on him. The other exception to the reward is a $1 million reward for Victor Manuel Gerena, who stole $7 mill from a security company in Connecticut back in 1983. He may be in Cuba. There’s generally only two ways to get off the list, either through death or capture.
Rarely does someone make it off the list because they’re no longer a threat. There is no #1 except for the two I mentioned, maybe, and occasionally there’s a #11 which would be someone extremely dangerous at the tijme, but will not be eligible to bump off anyone currently on the list. According to wiki, Gerena has the record for being on the list the longest at 31 years, and the shortest span was led by Austin Bryant who was on there for 2 hours in 1969. William Bradford Bishop was the oldest man to make the list at 77 years old. He’s on there for yelling at too many kids to get off his lawn. Since the list of top wanted fugitives was released, the FBI has also released a 10 most wanted terrorist list as well.
Collect em all!
1800 – Happy birthday James Bogardus.
He invented the cast iron building and pioneered the way for New York City to have all those marvelous large steel framed buildings. The triangle where Chambers, Hudson and West Broadway in Manhattan is named after him.
1794 — Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
Great controversial topic. I mean, we need clothes, right? But we don’t need slaves to make them. That’s the argument. Prior to the cotton gin, slaves wold have to pick out seeds from cotton manually. The gin used a hook that brushed away the cotton from the sed and produced more cotton in one hour than several days of slave labor. By 1815, cotton production went up to 100,000 pounds. That’s a lot of cottoon!
Naturally the use of slavery increased in the south as well. The conundrum indeed.
1776 – Alexander Hamilton is named captain of a New York artillery company.
Yes in addition to co-writing the Federalist papers with John Jay and James Madison, as well as being America’s first secretary of treasury and gettingkilled in a famous duel with Aaron Burr, Hamilton was a great military leader. During the amrican Revolution, He fought well in the battles of Long Island and Trenton, then later Brandywine Creek, Germantown and Princeton, and was appointed by Geneaal George Washington to lieutenant colonel and led in the battle of Yorktown against General Cornwallis.
1997 — Michael Jackson played the last date on the HIStory Tour at King’s Park Rugby Stadium, Durban, South Africa. During the tour, Jackson performed 82 concerts in 58 cities to over 4.5 million fans, visiting 5 continents and 35 countries.
1988 — Bon Jovi started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their fourth release, ‘New Jersey.’ The album produced five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles, the most top ten hits to date for a hard rock album.