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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 voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, who declined the crown, marking the end of imperial rule in Russia.
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 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 president of China.
2004 - Scientists announced 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.
2013 - The Pentagon announced it would spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to an Alaska-based missile defense system, responding to what it called faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles.
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.
2022 - Russia stepped up its bombardment of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, while an estimated 20,000 civilians fled the desperately encircled port city of Mariupol by way of a humanitarian corridor.
Birthdays
30 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
31 - Sosie Bacon (actress)
34 - Caitlin Wachs (actress)
38 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
40 - Sean Biggerstaff (actor)
42 - Young Buck (rapper)
48 - will.i.am (rapper)
48 - Eva Longoria (actress)
55 - Mark McGrath (singer)
56 - Kim Raver (actress)
57 - Chris Bruno (actor)
59 - Rockwell (singer)
60 - Bret Michaels (singer)
61 - Terence Trent D'Arby (singer)
62 - Fabio (model)
68 - Dee Snider (singer)
69 - Craig Wasson (actor)
70 - Frances Conroy (actress)
80 - Sly Stone (singer)
82 - Mike Love (singer)
88 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game. They were the first professional baseball team.
1912 - Baseball star Cy Young announced his retirement from baseball with a career record of 511-315.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain finished the NBA season with 4,029 points in 80 games, the first to score more than 4,000 points in a single season.
1962 - Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump in competition.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially relocate to Phoenix, Arizona.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first pole vaulter to clear 20-feet.
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 voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, who declined the crown, marking the end of imperial rule in Russia.
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 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 president of China.
2004 - Scientists announced 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.
2013 - The Pentagon announced it would spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to an Alaska-based missile defense system, responding to what it called faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles.
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.
2022 - Russia stepped up its bombardment of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, while an estimated 20,000 civilians fled the desperately encircled port city of Mariupol by way of a humanitarian corridor.
Birthdays
30 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
31 - Sosie Bacon (actress)
34 - Caitlin Wachs (actress)
38 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
40 - Sean Biggerstaff (actor)
42 - Young Buck (rapper)
48 - will.i.am (rapper)
48 - Eva Longoria (actress)
55 - Mark McGrath (singer)
56 - Kim Raver (actress)
57 - Chris Bruno (actor)
59 - Rockwell (singer)
60 - Bret Michaels (singer)
61 - Terence Trent D'Arby (singer)
62 - Fabio (model)
68 - Dee Snider (singer)
69 - Craig Wasson (actor)
70 - Frances Conroy (actress)
80 - Sly Stone (singer)
82 - Mike Love (singer)
88 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
=============================
Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game. They were the first professional baseball team.
1912 - Baseball star Cy Young announced his retirement from baseball with a career record of 511-315.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain finished the NBA season with 4,029 points in 80 games, the first to score more than 4,000 points in a single season.
1962 - Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump in competition.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially relocate to Phoenix, Arizona.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first pole vaulter to clear 20-feet.