On March 14th in history: In 1648 Ferdinando Fairfax, general in the Parliamentary Army during English Civil War, died. In 1831 the first reading of the Great Reform Act took place in the British House of Commons. In 1879 Albert Einstein was born. In 1883 Karl Marx died. In 1892 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian communist, later Comintern official and then effective ruler of Hungary, was born. In 1905 Raymond Aron, French philosopher and PCF member, was born. In 1914 United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) was founded at a meeting in Totontos Labour Temple. In 1915 Walter Crane, English socialist, artist and illustrator, died. In 1916 aa s reaction to Pancho Villas attack on Columbus, New Mexico, the US government senta punitive expedition into Mexico under the command of General Pershing. In1916 women in Saskatchewan, Canada, got the right to vote and stand in elections. In 1917 as a result of February Revolution the Petrograd Soviet issued Order No. 1, which granted legal status to soldiers committees. In 1943 the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto was completed. In 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1954 the film “Salt of the Earth”, with a cast of real miners depicting zinc miners struggles in New Mexico, had its première. In 1978 Carlo Giuliani, Italian activist killed by police during the G8 protests in Genoa, was born. In 1991 the Birmingham 6, innocent Irish building workers convicted of the Birmingham Pub Bombings of November 1973, were released after 16 years of wrongful imprisonment. In 1991 the German Constitutional Court declared that the current law stating that the wife had to adopt her husbands surname if the couple couldnt agree on a common family name was unconstitutional. In 1993 a referendum in Andorra adopted a democratic constitution and abolished feudalism! In 1994 the Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was released. In 2003 Ieng Sary, Cambodian politician and co-founder of Khmer Rouge, died. In 2008 protests and riots broke out in Lhasa against Chinese rule in Tibet and rapidly spread throughout the country.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:11:27 +0000