MARCH 15
1972:Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award-winning film The Godfather,
the epic story of the Corleone family based on Mario Puzo's mobster
novel of the same name, is released in theaters in the United States.
44 B.C.: On the Ides of March, Roman "dictator for life" Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who hoped that murdering Caesar would preserve the Roman republic and the power of the Senate.
1956: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison star in the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe musical My Fair Lady, which opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway on this day. The hit production is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, about phoneticist Henry Higgins' attempts to transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a high-class lady.
44 B.C.: On the Ides of March, Roman "dictator for life" Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who hoped that murdering Caesar would preserve the Roman republic and the power of the Senate.
1956: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison star in the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe musical My Fair Lady, which opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway on this day. The hit production is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, about phoneticist Henry Higgins' attempts to transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a high-class lady.
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