text: THE BEST:  It's Pi Day!  Yep, the unofficial celebration for Pi Day derived from the common three-digit approximation for the number π: 3.14.  (3-14 = March 14 ... LOL!  Isn't that great!?)\n\nMore from Wikipedia:\n\n\n1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. \n\n1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. \n\n1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues an executive order making Pelican Island, in Florida, a “preserve and breeding ground for native birds,” marking the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System. \n\n1923 - Pete Parker does the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. \n \n1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. \n1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. \n\n1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others. \n \n1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. \n\n1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. \n\n\n2004 - Chris Benoit won the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XX.