Today is Tuesday, March 15, the 75th day of 2016. There are 291 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina.
In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state.
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In 1922, Sultan Fuad I proclaimed himself the first king of modern Egypt.
In 1935, the Busby Berkeley movie musical “Gold Diggers of 1935” was released by Warner Bros.
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