Today in History: March 15

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Today is Wednesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2017. There are 291 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On March 15, 1767, the 7th president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in the Waxhaw settlement along the North Carolina-South Carolina border.

On this date:

In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.

In 1922, Sultan Fuad I proclaimed himself the first king of modern Egypt.

In 1937, America’s first hospital blood bank was opened at Cook County Hospital in Illinois.

In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal. (They divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, then divorced again in 1976.)

In 1985, the first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.

Today’s Birthdays: Former astronaut Alan L. Bean is 85. Singer Mike Love (The Beach Boys) is 76. Rock singer-musician Sly Stone is 74.

Thought for Today: “The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”

— President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).