Monday, March 15th
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On March 15, 1965, addressing a joint session of Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote. (Go to article.)
On March 15, 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey, a botanist who traveled around the world to collect and classify thousands of plants, was born. Following his death on Dec. 25, 1954, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On March 15, 1873, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a federal government scandal. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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44 B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1767 Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
1820 Maine became the 23rd state.
1875 The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York City, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal by Pope Pius IX.
1913 President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
1919 The American Legion was founded in Paris.
1956 The Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.
1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married.
1975 Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, the husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, died at age 69.
2003 Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China.
2003 The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
2004 Martha Stewart resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 10 days after she was convicted in a stock scandal.
2005 Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted of engineering an $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled his company. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)
Current Birthdays
Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns 77 years old today.
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns 77 years old today.
78 Alan L. Bean
Astronaut
75 Judd Hirsch
Actor ("Taxi")
71 Ted Kaufman
U.S. senator, D-Del.
70 Phil Lesh
Rock musician (Grateful Dead)
69 Mike Love
Rock singer (The Beach Boys)
67 Sly Stone
Rock singer, musician
63 Ry Cooder
Rock musician
55 Dee Snider
Rock singer (Twisted Sister)
53 Park Overall
Actress ("Empty Nest")
49 Fabio
Model
48 Terence Trent D'Arby
R&B singer
47 Bret Michaels
Rock singer (Poison)
46 Rockwell
R&B singer
42 Mark McGrath
Rock singer (Sugar Ray)
41 Kim Raver
Actress ("24")
38 Mike Tomlin
Football coach
35 Eva Longoria Parker
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
35 will.i.am
Rapper, musician (Black Eyed Peas)
31 Kevin Youkilis
Baseball player
29 Young Buck
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Liberty Hyde Bailey
3/15/1858 - 12/25/1954
American botanist and writer
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58 Franciscus Sylvius
3/15/1614 - 11/15/1672
German physician, physiologist and chemist
78 Andrew Jackson
3/15/1767 - 6/8/1845
7th president of the United States (1829-37)
69 William Lamb Melbourne
3/15/1779 - 11/24/1848
English prime minister and adviser to Queen Victoria
83 Jules Chevalier
3/15/1824 - 10/21/1907
French priest, author and founder of the Sacred Heart Missionaries
63 Emil von Behring
3/15/1854 - 3/31/1917
German Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist
68 Christian Michelsen
3/15/1857 - 6/28/1925
Norwegian prime minister; separated Norway from Sweden in 1905
77 Harold Ickes
3/15/1874 - 2/3/1952
American statesman
77 Henri Saint Cyr
3/15/1902 - 7/27/1979
Swedish equestrian; winner of two Olympic gold medals
67 Harry James
3/15/1916 - 7/5/1983
American trumpeter and bandleader
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