March 15

On This Day In History
	44: Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March In 44 BC Roman dictator Julius Caesar was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated this day, the Ides of March, by a group of nobles, among whom were Cassius and Brutus.
Julius Caesar, Roman marble bust, c. 44 BC
Biography Of The Day
	Andrew Jackson Military hero and seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson, born this day in 1767, was the first president to come from west of the Appalachians and the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the mass of voters.
Andrew Jackson, oil on canvas by Asher B. Durand, c. 1800; in the collection of the New-York
More Events On This Day In History
2003	2003 Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
	1917 During the first phase of the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, thus ending the rule of the Romanov dynasty.
	1875 Pope Pius IX appointed John McCloskey the first American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1781	1781 American revolutionaries won a strategic victory over the British at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina.
	1614 Franciscus Sylvius, whose studies helped shift medical emphasis from mystical speculation to a rational application of the laws of physics, was born in Hanau, Germany.