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On This Day

March 15

1988
First black American Catholic archbishop is chosen, Eugene A. Marino of Atlanta.

1974
Patty Hearst participates in San Francisco bank robbery with Symbionese Liberation Army who had abducted her a month earlier.

1937
First U.S. blood bank opens.

1919
The American Legion: Delegates representing veterans of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe meet in Paris and form the patriotic organization.

1917
Russian Revolution: Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates his throne, ending the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty. He and the royal family were killed the following year by the Bolsheviks in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

1892
First escalator is patented, by American inventor Jesse W. Reno.

1875
First American Roman Catholic cardinal, John McCloskey, archbishop of New York, is selected.

1869
First professional U.S. baseball team is organized, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

1820
Maine becomes 23rd state.

1729
First Catholic nun in America: Ceremony of Profession is held for Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard, of New Orleans.

1963
Jimmy Baio, American actor. TV: Soap (Billy Tate).

1944
Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart), singer.

1941
Mike Love, American singer, with The Beach Boys. Music: Surfin' USA (1963), I Get Around (1964, #1), Help Me Rhonda, (1965, #1), and Good Vibrations (1966, #1).

1935
Judd Hirsch, American Emmy-winning actor. TV: Taxi (Alex) and Dear John (John).

1932
Alan L. Bean, American astronaut, the fourth man to walk on the Moon (1969).

1913     d. 1994
Macdonald Carey, American Emmy-winning actor. TV: Days of Our Lives (Dr. Horton and narrator for the opening, "Like sands through the hourglass ...") and Roots (1977, Squire James).

1854     d. 1917
Emil von Behring, German Nobel-winning physiologist, bacteriologist. He discovered tetanus and diphtheria vaccines (1890).

1767     d. 1845
General Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President (1829-37), the only president to fight in a duel (1806). He shot and killed Charles Dickinson.

1975     b. 1906
Aristotle Socrates Onassis, Greek shipping executive, husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

1966     b. 1903
Abe Saperstein, basketball coach Hall of Famer, formed the Harlem Globetrotters (1927).

1934     b. 1884
Davidson Black, Canadian anthropologist. He discovered the race Homo erectus (1927) when he identified a single hominid tooth as the "Peking Man."

44 B.C.     b. 100 B.C.
Julius Caesar, Roman general, statesman. He was assassinated by Marcus Brutus; his fortune teller had warned: "beware the Ides of March."

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