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March 14
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday November 22, 2008
March 14 in history:
- 2004: Days after the Madrid train bombings, the Spanish electorate rejected the policies of Spain's conservative government (above all, its support for the Iraq War) and elected the Socialists to power; the incoming government announced that it would withdraw Spanish forces from Iraq.
- 1917: The Bolshevik Petrograd Soviet issued "Order No. 1," depriving officers in the Russian army of disciplinary authority, thus bringing about the collapse of military discipline and the Russian war effort in World War I.
- 1883: Karl Marx—economist, philosopher, revolutionist—died in London.
- 1794: Eli Whitney received his first patent for the cotton gin.
- 1629: The Massachusetts Bay Company was chartered by the English crown to colonize a large area of New England.
- 1471: Sir Thomas Malory, probable author of the great romance Morte Darthur, died in prison while serving a sentence for attempted murder.
