TODAY IN HISTORY

*MARCH 15:*

*44 BC* *Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.*
*1493* Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
*1892* 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC).
*1892* New York State unveils the new automatic ballot voting machine.
*1903* *The British complete the conquest of Nigeria.*
*1904* Three hundred Russians are killed as the Japanese shell Port Arthur in Korea.
*1934* Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage.
*1939* Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates.
*1949* Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.
*1955* The U.S. Air Force unveils the first self-guided missile.
*1961* South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth.
*1985* *The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.*