44 – “The ides of March are come.” “Ay, Caesar;but notgone.” – On the “Ides of March,” Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus.
221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
1391 – Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1526 – French Dauphin Francis and his brother Henry exchanged as hostages for their father Francis I, beginning four years of captivity in Spain under Treaty of Madrid
1580 – Spanish King Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of Prince William of Orange
1729 – Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d’etat never takes place.
1820 – Maine became the 23rd state.
1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1867 – Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1892 – New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1913 – 1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1916 – General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico
1917 – The last emperor of Russia abdicates – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated following the February Revolution. He was later executed together with his family and some of his servants.
1922 – France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment
1928 – Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1947 – John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1958 – Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
1966 – Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1969 – Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1971 – Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
1977 – US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions
1985 – The world’s first internet domain name is registered – symbolics.com was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. There are over 1 billion domains today.
1989 – US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1991 – 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
2001 – The world’s largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions
2004 – Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.
2017 – Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film “Beauty and the Beast” for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
2018 – More than 12,000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
2019 – Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand
2021 – Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region, southwest Niger, government declares three days of mourning
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
