44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome
Music History
1770 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (14) completes his String Quartet No. 1 (K. 80), in its original three-movement form on 15 March 1770 while touring in Lodi, Lombardy, Duchy of Milan
- 1892 First escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno is first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
- 1907 Finland is the first European country to give women the right to vote
- 1945 Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
- 1965 TGI Friday's first restaurant opens in New York City
Music History
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
- 1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold
Event of Interest
1969 Anne McCaffrey makes history as the first woman to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella) with her work "Dragonrider" [1]
- 1975 "That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
- 1985 First internet domain name, symbolics.com, is registered
- 1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
Music History
1998 The revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret," starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, opens at Club Expo Theater in NYC, runs for 2,377 performances, and wins four Tony Awards
- 2017 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
- 2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy
