March 15
44 B.C. - Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.
1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1956 - The Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.
1965 - Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American the right to vote.
1972 - "The Godfather", Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.
1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen as the next president of China.
2003 - The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
2008 - A construction crane toppled in New York City, killing seven people.
Birthdays
22 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
28 - Eric Decker (football player)
40 - Will.i.am (singer)
40 - Eva Longoria (actress)
43 - Mike Tomlin (football coach)
47 - Mark McGrath (rock singer)
52 - Bret Michaels (rock singer)
56 - Fabio (model)
60 - Dee Snider (songwriter)
72 - Iron Sheik (professional wrestler)
80 - Jimmy Swaggart (religious figure)
80 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
82 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court Justice)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game. They were the first professional baseball team.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retired from baseball with 512 wins.
1962 - Canadian Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain finished the NBA season with 4,029 points in 80 games.
1987 - The NFL awarded ESPN the league's first cable television contract.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals moved to Phoenix.
1991 - Moses Malone of the Atlanta Hawks recorded his 15,000th career rebound.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first person in the world to clear the 20-foot barrier in the pole vault.
1997 - North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith picked up his 877th career win, surpassing Kentucky's Adolph Rupp as the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history.
2002 - Fresno State's Jerry Tarkanian retired after a 31-year coaching tenure in Division I.
2009 - For the first time, three teams from the same conference were named #1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament. Louisville, Connecticut and Pittsburgh, all from the Big East, joined North Carolina to make up the four #1 seeds.
2010 - Connecticut, Stanford, Tennessee and Nebraska were named the #1 seeds for the NCAA Women's Tournament
44 B.C. - Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.
1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1956 - The Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.
1965 - Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American the right to vote.
1972 - "The Godfather", Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.
1975 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
2003 - Hu Jinato was chosen as the next president of China.
2003 - The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
2008 - A construction crane toppled in New York City, killing seven people.
Birthdays
22 - Alia Bhatt (actress)
28 - Eric Decker (football player)
40 - Will.i.am (singer)
40 - Eva Longoria (actress)
43 - Mike Tomlin (football coach)
47 - Mark McGrath (rock singer)
52 - Bret Michaels (rock singer)
56 - Fabio (model)
60 - Dee Snider (songwriter)
72 - Iron Sheik (professional wrestler)
80 - Jimmy Swaggart (religious figure)
80 - Judd Hirsch (actor)
82 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court Justice)
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Today in Sports History - March 15
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game. They were the first professional baseball team.
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retired from baseball with 512 wins.
1962 - Canadian Donald Jackson became the first man to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain finished the NBA season with 4,029 points in 80 games.
1987 - The NFL awarded ESPN the league's first cable television contract.
1988 - The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals moved to Phoenix.
1991 - Moses Malone of the Atlanta Hawks recorded his 15,000th career rebound.
1991 - Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union became the first person in the world to clear the 20-foot barrier in the pole vault.
1997 - North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith picked up his 877th career win, surpassing Kentucky's Adolph Rupp as the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history.
2002 - Fresno State's Jerry Tarkanian retired after a 31-year coaching tenure in Division I.
2009 - For the first time, three teams from the same conference were named #1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament. Louisville, Connecticut and Pittsburgh, all from the Big East, joined North Carolina to make up the four #1 seeds.
2010 - Connecticut, Stanford, Tennessee and Nebraska were named the #1 seeds for the NCAA Women's Tournament
