On This Day:
Saturday March 8, 2014 This is the 67th day of the year, with 298 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: brand names, generic names When a registered trademark, either by design or default, becomes generic, it immediately assumes the status of a standard word, and it is written with a lowercase letter, not an uppercase one. Any company then has the right to use the generic name as part of a name for its own products. This happened notably in the early days of trade name legislation. Today, companies spend tremendous resources protecting their brand names. Generic words that were once brand names include: aspirin, band-aid, dry ice, escalator, kerosene, linoleum, nylon, teflon, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, and zipper.
Holidays Feast day of St. Felix of Dunwich, St. Duthac, St. Julian of Toledo, St. Pontius of Carthage, St. Veremund, St. Senan, and St. John of God.
United Nations: International Women's Day.
Syria: Revolution Day.
Events 1765 - The British House of Lords passed the Stamp Act.
1801 - During the Napoleonic Wars, combined British and Ottoman forces successfully established a foothold in French-occupied Egypt.
1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York, a first in the U.S..
1910 - In Britain, the first man received a pilot's certificate, John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, while in France, Mme Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to be issued a pilot's license.
1913 - The Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes.
1917 - In Russia, the "February Revolution" (known as such because of Russia's then use of the Julian calendar) began when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupted in Petrograd.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1930 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi began the campaign of civil disobedience.
1950 - The USSR declared they had built an atomic bomb.
1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain.
1965 - Around 3500 Marines landed at Da Nang in South Vietnam and became the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam.
1971 - Joe Frazier, of Philadelphia, won a boxing decision over Muhammad Ali, who had been previously undefeated.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
2001 - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
Births 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author.
1879 - Otto Hahn, German, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress.
1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician best known as a founding member of the country-rock group the Eagles.
Deaths 1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor.
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer.
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States.
1971 - Harold Lloyd, American comedian and silent-film actor.
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player.
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