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Day in History: March 15th Caesar is stabbed by Brutus, Sedna is Discovered and Much More  
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Beware the Ideas of March, for those of you who didn't know that is March 15th, the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). There are 291 days remaining.

	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 on the Ides of March.
	1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
	1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
	1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
	1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
	1827 - The University of Toronto is chartered.
	1873 - Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity is founded at Massachusetts Agricultural College
	1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
	1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
	1919 - The American Legion forms in Paris.
	1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
	1953 - World contact day
	1956 - The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
	1963 - Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
	1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
	1970 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
	1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
	1990 - Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
	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 - Titanic defeats Star Wars for the #1 place in the North American domestic box office, grossing $471 million.

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