This Week in History
MARCH 14
Meaghan Edwards was born.
Mary McManus was born.
1964 – Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
MARCH 15
Tom Murphy was born.
44 BC – On the “Ides of March,” Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus.
MARCH 16
Jason Gibbons was born.
Rian Olivia Courtney was born.
Dorothy Sullivan was born.
Edward Sullivan was born.
John Russo was born.
1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” was published.
1968 – The My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam.
MARCH 17
Michael Becker was born.
Robert Peters was born.
1762 – The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City.
2003 – President Bush delivered an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: leave Iraq within 48 hours or face an attack.
MARCH 18
Lou Pastina was born.
Patty Magoolaghan was born.
Kristine Halligan Greene was born.
Samantha Knox was born.
1965 – Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
2004 – A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.
MARCH 19
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato was born.
1931 – Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.
1953 – The Academy Awards were first televised.
MARCH 20
Casey Brouder was born.
Robert Intelisano was born.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to fly a hot-air balloon nonstop around the world.
2003 – Ground troops entered Iraq and a second round of air strikes against Baghdad was launched.
