Cover of William ShakespeareMARCH 15
44 B.C.:On the Ides of March, Julius Caesar, the newly appointed dictator perpetuo of Rome, is fatally stabbed in Pompey's theater by some 60 senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who hoped Caesar's murder would preserve the power of the Roman Senate against Caesar's imperial designs. The soothsayer's warning "Beware the Ides of March" will be immortalized in William Shakespeare's 1599 play Julius Caesar.
1917: Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, abdicates the throne amid pressure from striking workers and military troops stationed in Petrograd during the February Revolution. The czar and his family will be executed in 1918.
1964: Actress Elizabeth Taylor marries actor Richard Burton for the first time in Montreal. The high-profile couple, whose whirlwind romance was often the subject of Hollywood gossip, will divorce in 1974 only to remarry a year later.
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