on this day in history

Soothsayer. Caesar!
Caesar.Ha! Who calls?
Casca.Bid every noise be still; peace yet again!
Caesar. Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than music,
Cry, 'Caesar.' Speak; Caesar is turned to hear.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. What man is that?
Brutus. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Caesar. Set him before me; let me see his face.
Cassius. Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
Caesar. What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.

From Act I Scene II, Julius Caesar by Wm. Shakespeare

44 B.C.

Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

1820 Maine enters the Union

As part of the Missouri Compromise between the North and the South, Maine is admitted into the Union as the 23rd state. Administered as a province of Massachusetts since 1647, the entrance of Maine as a free state was agreed to by Southern senators in exchange for the entrance of Missouri as a slave state.

1917 Czar Nicholas II abdicates

During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.

births

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933- )
Supreme Court justice; born in New York City; the second woman (after Sandra Day O'Connor) to sit on the nation's highest court.

Fabio (1961 - )

Sly Stone (1944 - )

Harry James (1916 - 1983)
Jazz trumpeter, born in Albany, Georgia, USA.

Buddha Stew (2001- )
Weblog, located at www.salamandastron.blogspot.com, maintained by proprietress Lorn, then university student and aspiring trombonist. Originally for use as public journal, Buddha Stew has evolved into a mix of personal stories, political commentary, and feminist rhetoric.

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