inhaler97

shut up, you. with your tacos. Sorry about the turtle. I wasn' sure if you ever even fed them anymore. You got another friend, you're on the SG rise.
-March 15th:
44BC - On this day, the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome. He was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate.
1767 - Born this day, Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States known as 'Old Hickory', was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina. The first American president to be born in a log cabin, Jackson was a hero of the War of 1812, an Indian fighter and a Tennessee lawyer.
1820 - On this date in 1820, as part of the Missouri Compromise between the North and the South, Maine was 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. WOO Maine!
1854 - Born this day, Emil von Behring, first recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901. cool.
1907 - On the 15th of March, Finnish women got their first taste of political power, by winning their first seats in the Finnish Diet (parliament). yeah.
1917 - On the 15th of March, Russian Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from his throne after the Pertrograd garrison refused to put down the wave of strikes and demonstrations that had been raging for the previous few weeks. The came to be known as the February Revolution as the Russian Julian calendar is 13 days behind. The Tsars authority finally collapsed, ending a thousand years of royal rule in Russia. Woo, Bolsheviks!
1933 - Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich, which he said would endure for 1,000 years. that's bad.
949 - Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ended. wierd
Dave

[Edited on Apr 09, 2003]