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"You know more than you think you do." Benjamin Spock, Today’s highlight in history
In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
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In 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, who declined the crown, marking the end of imperial rule in Russia. In 1937, America’s first hospital blood bank was opened at Cook County Hospital in Illinois. In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play “My Fair Lady,” based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened on Broadway.
In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second. (They divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975, then divorced again in 1976.) In 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day closedcircuit test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television. In 1985, the first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
In 1998, CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Bill Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president. Ten years ago: China’s legislature reappointed Hu Jintao as president, giving him a second five-year term. Five years ago: The Pentagon announced it would spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to an Alaskabased missile defense system, responding to what it called fasterthan-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles. One year ago: For the second time, a federal court blocked President Trump’s efforts to freeze immigration by refugees and citizens of some predominantly Muslim nations.
Pediatrician who wrote the bestseller "Child and Baby Care" (that's the book's first sentence), who died on this date in 1998 at age 94