On This Day for March 15 - Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-15 10:03 Updated: 2020-03-15 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 15

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1933

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

FEATURED EVENT

44 bce

Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2019: More than 1.5 million students participated in climate change protests around the world as part of Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. [ What's the difference between global warming and climate change? ]

2003: Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as the president of China. [ Sort fact from fiction in our China quiz .]

1990: The Congress of People's Deputies of the U.S.S.R. elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the newly created post of president of the Soviet Union. [ Watch an overview of Mikhail Gorbachev's life and career .]

1972: The Godfather , an epic drama about organized crime, premiered to universal acclaim; the Academy Award-winning film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Al Pacino and Marlon Brando. [ Take our Al Pacino quiz .]

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1964: Following a highly publicized affair, American actress Elizabeth Taylor wed British actor Richard Burton in Montreal; they divorced in 1974 and briefly remarried (1975–76).

1767: Military hero and seventh U.S. president (1829–37) Andrew Jackson, who was the first president to come from west of the Appalachians and the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the mass of voters, was born.

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1767

Andrew Jackson
president of United States

1943

David Cronenberg
Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor

1878

Reza Shah Pahlavi
shah of Iran

1813

John Snow
British physician

1947

Ry Cooder
American musician