44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
280 - Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin Dynasty.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1875 - Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first Cardinal in the United States.
1892 - Liverpool F.C. is founded.
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 - World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1961 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1978 - Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1985 - Brazilian military dictatorship ends.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
2011 - Beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Famous Birthdays
938 - Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor
1275 - Princess Margaret of England
1638 - Shunzhi, Emperor of China
1737 - Amarindra, Queen consort to King Rama I of Siam
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
1779 - William Lamb, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1857 - Christian Michelsen, 1st Prime Minister of Norway
1887 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, entrepreneur founder of General Foods, Inc.
1914 - Joe E. Ross, actor and comedian
1931 - D. J. Fontana, musician
1941 - Mike Love, musician
1948 - Kate Bornstein, author
1965 - Svetlana Medvedeva, First Lady of Russia
1972 - Mark Hoppus, musician
1975 - will.i.am (William James Adams Jr.), rapper, producer, and actor
1984 - Wilson Aparecido Xavier Júnior, footballer
1991 - Kevin Müller, footballer
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