March 15
\n44 B.C.
\nOn the \u201cIdes of March,\u201d Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus.<\/p>\n
1493
\nChristopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n
1820
\nMaine became the 23rd state.<\/p>\n
1917
\nNicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne (March 2, old style calendar).<\/p>\n
1937
\nThe first hospital blood bank in the United States was established, in Chicago, at Cook County Hospital.<\/p>\n
1965
\nPresident Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.<\/p>\n
2003
\nHu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.<\/p>\n
2004
\nScientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Andrew Jackson
\nGeneral, Seventh President of the United States (1767)<\/p>\n
Emil von Behring
\nphysician (1854)<\/p>\n
Liberty Hyde Bailey
\nbotanist (1858)<\/p>\n
Lawrence Sanders
\nnovelist (1920)<\/p>\n
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
\nassociate justice (1933)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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