March 14: Pi Day
Math Holiday: Pi Day
Geek events to celebrate on March 14:
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
March 14 birthdays of geeky note:
1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951) who was a pioneer of modern weather forecasting. You know, taking it from reading frog guts under a full moon to using equations and climate models.
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955). Maybe you’ve heard of him?