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44 : Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March.In 44 BC Roman dictator Julius Caesar was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated this day, the Ides of March, by a group of nobles, among whom were Cassius and Brutus.More events on this day2003:Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as the president of China. |
1917:During the first phase of the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, thus ending the rule of the Romanov dynasty. |
1875:Pope Pius IX appointed John McCloskey the first American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. |
1781:American revolutionaries won a strategic victory over the British at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. |
1614:Franciscus Sylvius, whose studies helped shift medical emphasis from mystical speculation to a rational application of the laws of physics, was born in Hanau, Germany. |
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