Future US Senator John McCain published North Vietnamese captivity – Chicago Tribune

Today is Friday, March 14th, the 73rd day of 2025. There are still 292 days a year.

Today in history:

On March 14, 1973, the future US senator and presidential candidate John McCain from North Vietnamese captivity was released after he had been prisoner of war for over five years.

Also on this date:

In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton diaper, an invention that revolutionized the American cotton industry.

In 1879 Albert Einstein, who revolutionized physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm.

In 1964, a jury in Dallas Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered by President John F. Kennedy, and condemned Ruby to death. (Both the conviction and the death sentence were canceled, but Ruby died before it could be repeated.)

In 1967, President John F. Kennedy's body was laid by a temporary grave to a constant memorial on the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

In 1980, many Polish airlines crashed Jet when they tried to land in Warsaw, and killed all 87 people on board, including 22 athletes and employees of the US box team.

In 2015, Robert Durst, a wealthy eccentric who was connected with two murders and disappearance of his wife, was arrested by the FBI in New Orleans because of a murder, one day before HBO radiated the last episode of a serial documentary about his life. (Thur would be convicted of the death of his friend Susan Berman; he died in January 2022 while serving a lifelong prison sentence in California.)