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Friday, March 15, 2013

This was 74th day of the year and 291 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 4 Nisan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 4th day of the 2nd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

March 15 Birthdays

Andrew Jackson
1767–1845; born in what is now generally agreed to be Waxhaw, S.C.

Emil von Behring
physician (1854)

Liberty Hyde Bailey
botanist (1858)

Lawrence Sanders
novelist (1920)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
associate justice (1933)

March 2013

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March 15 in History

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.

1820

Maine became the 23rd state.

1917

Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, is forced to abdicate his throne (March 2, old style calendar).

1937

The first hospital blood bank in the United States was established, in Chicago, at Cook County Hospital.

1965

President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.

2003

Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.

2004

Scientists reported the discovery of Sedna, the most distant object in the solar system.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.