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On March 15th, according to wikipedia.org:

44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators

1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, is born

1830 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist, is born

1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

1937 - H. P. Lovecraft dies.

1939: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

1991 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.

1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.

1998 - Dr. Spock dies

And, of course:

1973 - In an alternate timeline in Back to the Future Part II, George McFly murdered by Biff Tannen.

2337 - Discovery of Yuggoth

3019 T.A. - Battle of the Pelennor Fields

And it's the Saint Day for St.Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross.

And, since 1997, it's International Day Against Police Brutality

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Well, he does keep them guessing.

When Bush was elected, everyone thought he was going to invade Iraq first. But then he surprised us all by attacking Afghanistan first.

Then, everyone expected him to attack Syria after Iraq, but it looks like it's gonna be Iran next after all. And the best news? He wants to play with his newest nuclear toys! Yep, that's right. If Bush has his way, the United States is going to be the first country to nuke another country since... well, since the United States. Part of that "150 years of unbroken friendship between the United States and Japan".

Oh, yeah, the article I'm talking about: US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran

Hey, bring on the nuclear holocaust. After all, if there's one thing we learned from comic books, it's that radiation gives you superpowers!

I just hope there's no afterlife, because it would be so embarassing to have to tell everyone that I was killed in a nukuler war.