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"The ides of March are come." "Ay, Caesar; but not gone."
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.
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1493
Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.
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1820
Maine became the 23rd state.
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1917
Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne (March 2, old style calendar).
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1937
The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established, in Chicago, at Cook County Hospital.
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1965
President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
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2003
Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
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2004
Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.
