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March 15, 44 B.C
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. After being wounded in the groin by Marcus Brutus, Caesar was said to have remarked (in Greek), "You, too, my child." 1767 Andrew Jackson born President Andrew Jackson is born in the Garden of the Waxhaws, South Carolina. 1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia On this day, Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia--a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. 1820 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 Massachusetts since 1647, the entrance of Maine as a free state was agreed to by Southern senators in exchange for the entrance of Missouri as a slave state. 1916 Pancho Villa A United States expedition under the command of General John J. Pershing is sent into Mexico to pursue the Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho" Villa. |
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