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March 15
44 - On the "Ides of March," Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1917 - Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne.
1919 - Members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.
1937 - The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established in Chicago at Cook County Hospital.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote; the result was the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1972 - “The Godfather,” Francis Ford Coppola’s epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2004 - Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.
2005 - Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)
2011 - The Syrian civil war had its beginnings with Arab Spring protests across the region that turned into an armed insurgency and eventually became a full-blown conflict.
2012 - Convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich walked into a federal prison in Colorado, where the 55-year-old Democrat began serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. (He was released in February 2020 after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence.)
2018 - A pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel; six people died and 10 were injured.
2019 - A gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, streaming the massacre live on Facebook. (Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to 51 counts of murder and other charges.)
2020 - The Federal Reserve took massive emergency action to help the economy withstand the coronavirus by slashing its benchmark interest rate to near zero and saying it would buy $700 billion in treasury and mortgage bonds. After initially trying to keep schools open, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the nation’s largest public school system would close in hopes of curbing the spread of the virus.
2023 - The American Kennel Club announced that the French bulldog had become the most popular breed in the U.S., overtaking the Labrador retriever, which had been on top for more than three decades.
Birthdays
28 - Maxwell Jacob Friedman (professional wrestler)
31 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
35 - Caitlin Wachs (actress)
39 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
41 - Sean Biggerstaff (actor)
43 - Young Buck (rapper)
49 - will.i.am (rapper)
49 - Eva Longoria (actress)
56 - Mark McGrath (singer)
57 - Kim Raver (actress)
58 - Chris Bruno (actor)
61 - Bret Michaels (singer)
63 - Fabio (model)
69 - Dee Snider (singer/radio host)
70 - Craig Wasson (actor)
83 - Mike Love (singer)
89 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, played their first game.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retired from baseball with a career record of 511-315.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain became the first player in NBA history to score 4,000 points in a season.
1962 - Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals relocate to Phoenix.
1989 - The New York Rangers retire Eddie Giacomin's #1.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first man to clear 20 feet in the pole vault.
44 - On the "Ides of March," Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1917 - Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne.
1919 - Members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.
1937 - The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established in Chicago at Cook County Hospital.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote; the result was the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1972 - “The Godfather,” Francis Ford Coppola’s epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2004 - Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.
2005 - Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)
2011 - The Syrian civil war had its beginnings with Arab Spring protests across the region that turned into an armed insurgency and eventually became a full-blown conflict.
2012 - Convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich walked into a federal prison in Colorado, where the 55-year-old Democrat began serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. (He was released in February 2020 after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence.)
2018 - A pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel; six people died and 10 were injured.
2019 - A gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, streaming the massacre live on Facebook. (Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to 51 counts of murder and other charges.)
2020 - The Federal Reserve took massive emergency action to help the economy withstand the coronavirus by slashing its benchmark interest rate to near zero and saying it would buy $700 billion in treasury and mortgage bonds. After initially trying to keep schools open, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the nation’s largest public school system would close in hopes of curbing the spread of the virus.
2023 - The American Kennel Club announced that the French bulldog had become the most popular breed in the U.S., overtaking the Labrador retriever, which had been on top for more than three decades.
Birthdays
28 - Maxwell Jacob Friedman (professional wrestler)
31 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
35 - Caitlin Wachs (actress)
39 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
41 - Sean Biggerstaff (actor)
43 - Young Buck (rapper)
49 - will.i.am (rapper)
49 - Eva Longoria (actress)
56 - Mark McGrath (singer)
57 - Kim Raver (actress)
58 - Chris Bruno (actor)
61 - Bret Michaels (singer)
63 - Fabio (model)
69 - Dee Snider (singer/radio host)
70 - Craig Wasson (actor)
83 - Mike Love (singer)
89 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, played their first game.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retired from baseball with a career record of 511-315.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain became the first player in NBA history to score 4,000 points in a season.
1962 - Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals relocate to Phoenix.
1989 - The New York Rangers retire Eddie Giacomin's #1.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first man to clear 20 feet in the pole vault.
