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Julius Caesar
Portrait of George Washington in military uniform
John McCloskey- Two German infantrymen in Russia, 1941
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
Pancho Villa
Blank map of Maine
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Hōnen Matsuri in Japan | essentially unreferenced stub |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. | unreferenced sections |
| 1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77 article is tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. | unreferenced section |
| 1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | both tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. | unreferenced sections |
Eligible
- 933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia.
- 1783 – A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the supremacy of Congress.
- 1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine (map pictured) was given its own U.S. statehood.
- 1892 – Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
- 1916 – Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.
- 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.
- 1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City.
- 1972 – The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released.
- 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com.
- 1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people.
- 1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government.
Notes
- FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27, so Liverpool FC should not appear in the same year
- Missouri Compromise appears on March 3, so Maine should not appear in the same year
March 15: Ides of March; Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2015); National Day in Hungary (1848)
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- 44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death (painting by Vincenzo Camuccini pictured) by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
- 1311 – The Catalan Company defeated Walter V, Count of Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States.
- 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia.
- 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel.