TODAY IN HISTORY

44 B.C.

Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.

1493

Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in the Spanish harbor of Palos de la Frontera, two months after concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1820

Maine became the 23rd state.

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.

1919

Members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.

1944

During World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino.

1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing a joint session of Congress, called for new legislation to guarantee every American’s right to vote; the result was passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.