March 15
Beware the Ides of March
NATIONAL Buzzards Day
NATIONAL Everything You Think is Wrong Day
NATIONAL Shoe the World Day
NATIONAL Kick Butts Day [activism against smoking]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1820 Maine is admitted to the union as the 23rd state
1934 Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage
1968 The US mint halts the practice of buying and selling gold
1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)
1991 Four Los Angeles police officers are charged in the beating of Rodney King
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