On this day in history - March 14

What Happened On This Day – March 14

• 1991 The “Birmingham Six” are released

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

• 1979 Factory Plane Crash in China

  At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sources, the plane had previously been stolen by the pilot who was not qualified to fly it.

• 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 Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

• 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 resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.

• 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.