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Today is Day 75 of 2024
44
BC
Roman strongman Julius Caesar,
already warned to be wary on this the Ides of March by the
astrologer Spurinna, is assassinated by a group of Senators at the
Pompey theater.
Caesar: The ides of March are
come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Shakespeare, Julius
Caesar, III, i, 1
Sic semper
tyrannis.
1767
Seventh
President of the US, Andrew Jackson born
in the Waxhaws area between North and South Carolina.
1820 
Maine becomes the 23rd U.S.
state.
1902
Editor,
humorist, and writer, Wolcott Gibbs born.
He worked for the New Yorker from
1927 until his death in 1958
1912 
Blues singer Lightnin'
Hopkins born in Centerville, Texas.
1916
President Woodrow Wilson
sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border in pursuit
Pancho Villa for
his recent raid on Columbus,
New Mexico.
1917
Tsar Nicholas
II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the Romanov dynasty
after over 300 years.
1937
Death of
writer H. P.
Lovecraft (The Call of
Cthulhu) occurrs in Providence, Rhode Island.
1943
Rock great
Sly Stone born in
Denton, Texas
1947
Guitarist Ry Cooder born in Los
Angeles.
1985
The first Internet domain
name is registered - symbolics.com
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel." ~ Latin Proverb
