Scooter again for today in history for March 15th -> 44 B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere. 1820 Maine became the 23rd state. 1913 President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference. 1919 The American Legion was founded in Paris. 1956 The Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady opened on Broadway. 1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married; it was her fifth marriage, his second. 1965 Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every Americans right to vote. 1972 The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppolas epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York. 1975 Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69. 1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts. 2003 Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China. 2003 The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). 2008 A construction crane toppled in New York City, killing seven people.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:40:22 +0000
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