This Day in History
15 Mar 1311
Battle of Halmyros The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens a Crusader state in Greece.
15 Mar 1360
French attack English south coast raiding Winchelsea
15 Mar 1382
Conservative Popolo Grasso regain power in Florence Italy
15 Mar 1391
Anti-Semite monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
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The Ides of March
Gaius Julius Caesar dictator of Rome is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.C...
Maine enters the Union
As part of the Missouri Compromise between the North and the South Maine is admitted into the Union as the 23rd state. Administered as a province of Massachuse...
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
During the February Revolution Czar Nicholas II ruler of Russia since 1894 is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents and a provincial gov...
Johnson calls for equal voting rights
On this day in 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting rights for all.Usi...
Russian czar abdicates
During the February Revolution Czar Nicholas II ruler of Russia since 1894 is forced to abdicate the throne on this day in 1917 after strikes and general re...
President Nixon hints at reintervention
President Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. A cease-fire under the provisions of...
Army Chief of Staff reports on South Vietnam
Gen. Harold K. Johnson Army Chief of Staff reports on his recent visit to Vietnam to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. He ...
Bobby Orr scores 100 points in one season
On March 15 1970 Boston Bruin Bobby Orr becomes the first defenseman in NHL history to score 100 points in a season after scoring four goals in one game agai...
Andrew Jackson is born
Future President Andrew Jackson is born in a backwoods region between North and South Carolina to Irish immigrant parents on this day in 1767. Jackson was essen...
Andrew Jackson born
Andrew Jackson is born in the Garden of the Waxhaws South Carolina.The son of Irish immigrants Jackson spent much of his early life in the rough-and-tumble fr...
Julius Caesar is stabbed
Beware the Ides of March the soothsayer urges Julius Caesar in Shakespeares Tragedy of Julius Caesar (act I scene ii). Despite the forew...
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather opens
On this day in 1972 The Godfathera three-hour epic chronicling the lives of the Corleones an Italian-American crime family led by the powerful Vito Co...
Blizzard unexpectedly hits North Dakota and Minnesota
A fast-moving and severe blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 151 people on this day in 1941. Weather forecasting and reporting made important ad...
The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered
Julius Caesar the dictator for life of the Roman Empire is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompeys Theatre. ...
Edward A. Perry born
On this day in 1831 Confederate General Edward Aylesworth Perry is born in Richmond Massachusetts. The transplanted Yankee led a Florida brigade during the Ci...
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