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plutherusOn 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
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
