📜 This Day in History

March 15

• 44 BCJulius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.
• 1783George Washington delivered a speech to Continental Army officers in Newburgh, New York, asking them to support the supremacy of the Congress of the Confederation, defusing a potential coup.
• 1910Prospectors drilled into a pressurized deposit within the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in California, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill in history, which eventually released 9 million barrels (1.4 million m3) of crude oil over 18 months.
• 1927In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the inaugural edition of the Women's Boat Race.
• 1951The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.
• 1990Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.

Born on this day

• 1767Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (died 1845)
• 1830Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
• 1993Alia Bhatt, British actress
• 1993Paul Pogba, French footballer