That is, if you're Julius Caesar. March 15 has been associated with disdain ever since the Roman dictator was assassinated in 44 BCE by his fellow statesmen. Superstitious people may be wary of the day, convinced awful things will happen to them because it wasn't a great day for Caesar. However, many interesting historical things happened on March 15, so read below to learn about a few of them!
Batter up!
In 1869, the Cincinnati Reds became the world's first professional baseball team. The "Big Red Machine" has since one five world series titles.
Rolling in Style
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| Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (made between 1907-1925) Photo Credit: Malcolm Asquith |
Rolls-Royce Limited, the English car manufacturing company was founded on March 15, 1906 by Charles Rolls and Sir Frederick Royce. Their first car, the six cylinder Silver Ghost was considered to be "the best car in the world".
"We shall overcome"
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| Pres Johnson meets Martin Luther King, Jr meet at the signing of the Voting Rights Act August 6, 1965 |
In 1965, shortly after the Selma to Montgomery marches, President Lyndon B Johnson addressed Congress to expand voting rights legislation. This eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was introduced two days later.
Information Highway
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On this day in 1985, Symbolics.com became the first registered .com domain in the world. Since then, hundreds of millions of domains are in use, but the Symbolics Computer Corporation had their feet in the pool first!
There are many more cool events that happened on the Ides of March, so don't be afraid of this day any longer!
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