On This Day in History |
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 | The Death of Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme |
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44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome. |
221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty |
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World. |
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened Coup d'état. |
1917 The last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]. |
1962 Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter. |
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Also Lightnin Hopkins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Eva Longoria (49). |
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The world's superpowers were prepared to use the power of their warships to control the Samoan Islands in the 1880s. But nature had other ideas. |
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