March 15
Today is the 74th day of 2017, there are 291 days left in the year.
44 B.C. - 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.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1767 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Washaw settlement along the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.
1917 - Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne.
1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1937 - The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
1977 - The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day closed-circuit test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.
1985 - The world's first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
1999 - An Amtrak train slammed into a steel-filled truck at a crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois, killing 11 people.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2003 - The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
2004 - Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object ever detected in the solar system.
2008 - A construction crane toppled in New York City, killing seven people.
2011 - The Syrian civil war had its beginnings with Arab Spring protests across the region that turned into an armed insurgency and eventually became a full-blown conflict.
Birthdays
22 - Jabari Parker (basketball player)
22 - Janice Joostema (model)
24 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
24 - Alyssa Reid (singer)
26 - Tavon Austin (football player)
30 - Eric Decker (football player)
31 - Jai Courtney (actor)
32 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
36 - Young Buck (rapper)
42 - Eva Longoria (actress)
42 - will.i.am (singer)
45 - Mark Hoppus (singer)
45 - Mike Tomlin (football coach)
48 - Kim Raver (actress)
54 - Bret Michaels (singer)
58 - Fabio (model)
62 - Dee Snider (singer)
76 - Mike Love (singer)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team. They also play their first game, defeating Antioch 41-7.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 career wins.
1958 - Oscar Robertson scores an NCAA Tournament record 56 points for the University of Cincinnati.
1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada is the first figure skater to land a triple lutz jump in competition.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first player in NBA history to score 4,000 points in a single-season, finishing the season with 4,029 points in 80 games.
1969 - Bob Beamon set an indoor record for the long jump with 27 feet, 2 3/4 inches. On October 17th at the Olympic Games in Mexico he jumped 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches.
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in ten rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals move to Phoenix, Arizona.
1989 - The New York Rangers retire Eddie Giacomin's #1.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first pole vaulter to clear the 20-foot barrier.
1997 - Joe Mullen of the Pittsburgh Penguins is the first American-born player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
Today is the 74th day of 2017, there are 291 days left in the year.
44 B.C. - 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.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1767 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Washaw settlement along the North Carolina-South Carolina border.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.
1917 - Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne.
1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1937 - The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
1977 - The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day closed-circuit test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.
1985 - The world's first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
1999 - An Amtrak train slammed into a steel-filled truck at a crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois, killing 11 people.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2003 - The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
2004 - Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object ever detected in the solar system.
2008 - A construction crane toppled in New York City, killing seven people.
2011 - The Syrian civil war had its beginnings with Arab Spring protests across the region that turned into an armed insurgency and eventually became a full-blown conflict.
Birthdays
22 - Jabari Parker (basketball player)
22 - Janice Joostema (model)
24 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
24 - Alyssa Reid (singer)
26 - Tavon Austin (football player)
30 - Eric Decker (football player)
31 - Jai Courtney (actor)
32 - Kellan Lutz (actor)
36 - Young Buck (rapper)
42 - Eva Longoria (actress)
42 - will.i.am (singer)
45 - Mark Hoppus (singer)
45 - Mike Tomlin (football coach)
48 - Kim Raver (actress)
54 - Bret Michaels (singer)
58 - Fabio (model)
62 - Dee Snider (singer)
76 - Mike Love (singer)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball team. They also play their first game, defeating Antioch 41-7.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 career wins.
1958 - Oscar Robertson scores an NCAA Tournament record 56 points for the University of Cincinnati.
1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada is the first figure skater to land a triple lutz jump in competition.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first player in NBA history to score 4,000 points in a single-season, finishing the season with 4,029 points in 80 games.
1969 - Bob Beamon set an indoor record for the long jump with 27 feet, 2 3/4 inches. On October 17th at the Olympic Games in Mexico he jumped 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches.
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in ten rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals move to Phoenix, Arizona.
1989 - The New York Rangers retire Eddie Giacomin's #1.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first pole vaulter to clear the 20-foot barrier.
1997 - Joe Mullen of the Pittsburgh Penguins is the first American-born player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
