On this day: March 15

March 15: Ides of March

The Death of Julius Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini

• 44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death (pictured) by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
• 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States.
• 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
• 1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.
• 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel.

Archibald Menzies (b. 1754) · Matthew Charlton (b. 1866) · Paul Pogba (b. 1993)

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