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Today in History ~ March 15
Ides of March
Events44BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated by Brutus and other Roman nobles in Rome, on the Ides of March [H]
0493 - Theodoric the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 - Jew-hating monk in Seville Spain stirs up mob to attack Jews
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of Prince William of Orange
1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state. Maine was administered as a province of Massachusetts since 1647, the entrance of Maine into the US as a free state helps maintain the balance in the US Senate that would have been disrupted by the entrance of Missouri Territory into the Union as a slave state. [H]
1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 - Red River Campaign -- Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1875 - The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal by Pope Pius IX.
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rhapsodie Espagnole"
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
1916 - General Pershing, with 6,600 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico, stays 10 months.
1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [H]
1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1923 - Lenin is felled by his 3rd stroke
1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh, NC)
1939 - Nazis occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia becomes independent
1940 - Reichsmarshal Herman Goering says 100-200 church bells are enough for Germany, smelts the rest
1941 - Blizzard in ND kills 151
1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1950 - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC
1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 - Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC for 580 performances
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal. It was her fifth marriage and his second.
1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 - Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
1970 - "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1971 - CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 - Assassination attempt permanently cripples governor George Wallace of Alabama
1975 - Ted Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1977 - The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.
1984 - Acquittal of a Miami police officer on charges of negligently killing a ghetto youth sparked a rampage by angry blacks in Miami; 550 people were arrested.
1985 - Two decades of military rule in Brazil ended with the installation of a civilian government.
1986 - Funeral services held for assassinated Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 - "Starlight Express" by Andrew Lloyd Weber, opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1990 - The Israeli Knesset brought down Yitzhak Shamir's government on a no-confidence motion after the Likud Party leader refuses to accept a U.S. peace proposal.
1991 - An indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles, charging four police officers with beating black motorist Rodney King.
1991 - Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka cleared a record 20 feet during an international meet in San Sebastian, Spain.
1991 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic declared Serbia's secession from the Yugoslav federation.
1992 - Democratic presidential candidates debated in Chicago, criticizing President George H.W. Bush's handling of the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath, and clashing over economic issues.
1992 - The United Nations officially embarked on its largest peacekeeping operation with the arrival of a diplomat in Cambodia.
1993 - The New York Post filed for bankruptcy protection hours after the newspaper's new buyer fired 72 employees, throwing the future of the 192-year-old tabloid into doubt.
1994 - Despite being the subject of a criminal investigation into his financial affairs, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, won a hard-fought battle for renomination. However, he would lose the November general election.
1996 - The Liggett Group agreed to repay more than $10 million in Medicaid bills for treatment of smokers, settling lawsuits with five states.
1997 - President Clinton spent a second day at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, recuperating from surgery for a partially torn knee tendon.
1997 - Greek frogmen and U.S. Marines evacuated hundreds of foreigners trapped in Albania by that country's descent into anarchy.
1997 - The rebellion in Zaire continued as Kisangani, the African nation's third-largest city, fell to rebel forces.
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2000 - Their presidential nominations secured, Al Gore and George W. Bush dig in for the eight-month battle to Election Day, with Bush saying he was braced for Gore's "politics of personal destruction and distortions," and Gore arguing that Bush's "risky tax scheme" would hurt the economy.
2001 - Chechen terrorists wielding knives and claiming to have a bomb hijacked a Russian airliner carrying 174 people en route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Moscow and diverted it to Medina, Saudi Arabia. After nearly 24 hours of fruitless negotiations, a Saudi security team stormed the plane and freed the hostages. hijacked a Russian plane (a flight attendant, a passenger and a hijacker were killed.)
2001 - The Senate passed federal bankruptcy reforms that would tighten guidelines for filing for bankruptcy.
Birthdays Today
0076 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1767 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in Waxhaw, S.C. [H] [T]
1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, compos
1873 - Lee Shubert (producer: theatres in NY and LA named after him)
1874 - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
1907 - Jimmy McPartland (jazz musician: trumpet; played for the Wolverines, Embassy Four; bandleader; actor: The Magic Horn; played at Newport Jazz Festival with wife, Marian)
1913 - MacDonald Carey (actor: "Like sands through the hourglass these are 'The Day's of our Lives'"; Comanche Territory, The Rebels, Who is the Black Dahlia, Access Code)
1916 - Harry James (trumpeter, bandleader: Sweet Georgia Brown, Chiribiribin, And The Angels Sing, Two O'clock Jump, You Made Me Love You, Music Makers, Strictly Instrumental, I'll Get By)
1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
1927 - Carl Smith (country singer: Let's Live a Little, Loose Talk, Trademark, Satisfaction Guaranteed; actor: The Badge of Marshall Brennan, Buffalo Guns; member: Grand Ole Opry)
1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
1932 - Alan Bean (astronaut)
1933 - Cecil Taylor (jazz pianist international concert artist, composer; taught black music and led Black Music Ensemble at U. of Wisconsin, Antioch, N.J. Glassboro State)
1933 - Roy Clark (musician: guitar, banjo; country singer: Tips of My Fingers, Through the Eyes of a Fool, Yesterday When I was Young, CMA Entertainer of the Year [1973], Comedian of the Year [1970, 1971, 1972]; co-host: Hee Haw)
1935 - Judd Hirsch (Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-81,1982-83]; Ordinary People, The Good-bye People, Running on Empty)
1941 - Mike Love (singer, songwriter: group: The Beach Boys: I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations, California Girls, Surfin' USA, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Be True to Your School)
1944 - Sly Stone (Stewart) (musician, singer: group: Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You, Family Affair; Former San Francisco DJ)
1945 - Tracy Smith (runner)
1946 - Bobby Bonds (baseball: Individual record for season strikeouts [189]: San Francisco Giants [1970])
Famous deaths
44BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated [H]
0493 - Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
0963 - Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1842 - Maria Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
1944 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at
1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle S Onassis died near Paris at age 69.
1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1996 - Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
2000 - TV funnyman Durward Kirby died in Fort Myers, Fla., at age 88.
2001 - Actress Ann Sothern died in Ketchum, Idaho, at age 92.
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