on my birthday, March 15, in:
44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
Birthdays:
1596 - René Descartes, French philosopher(d. 1650)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Deaths:
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
Birthdays:
1596 - René Descartes, French philosopher(d. 1650)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Deaths:
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)