On this day in history - Today, March, 14

Today in History

• 1910 The Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill in history

  The spill lasted 18 months and 9 million barrels of crude oil were released.

• 1942 For the first time in history, a dying patient's life is saved by penicillin

  Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulte

• 1960 The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time

  15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Min

• 1979 Factory Plane Crash in China

  At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sourc

• 1991 The Birmingham Six are released

  The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombing