What happened on 14 March?

5 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1844 Dumas's The Three Musketeers Romantic adventure novel of d'Artagnan and the king's musketeers.
2. 1794 Whitney's cotton gin Dramatically sped up cotton processing; perversely entrenched US slavery.
3. 1990 The Communist Party surrenders its monopoly The Congress of People's Deputies rewrites Article 6 of the Soviet constitution to remove the Party's constitutional 'leading role', and creates an executive presidency for Gorbach
4. 2023 GPT-4 released Multimodal large language model from OpenAI.
5. 1916 Pancho Villa Expedition After Villa's raid on Columbus, Pershing leads 10,000 US troops deep into Mexico for eleven months; they never catch him.