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44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

From which we get the expressions: "Et tu Brute" "...beware the Ides of March", " A funny thing happened on the way to the forum"...Even First lady Eleanor Roosevelt held a toga party to spoof those that compared her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt to "Caesar". May their respective memories never 'go bust!'(as I collect my $ocial $ecurity...thanks FDR! ) I'm in line with this theory:

And on that fateful day in March more than 2,000 years ago, Caesar dragged his aching, sick body out of bed and headed toward the Senate, likely knowing exactly what he was walking into. He wasn’t just ignoring warnings of impending death; he was achieving immortality. Caesar may not have had to actually guide the hands that drove those daggers into his body 23 times, but his yet-shrewd mind saw all the pieces falling together. He even got to one-up his betrayers by selecting the Senate as the scene of the murder.
“If the conspirators are going to kill him, what would be the worst place? Where they would lose their legitimacy?” The Senate was a traditionally weapon-free location the conspirators violated by attacking him.
Bursztajn’s conclusion is startling, The (London) Sunday Times asserted.
The godfather who directs and controls the events of March 15, 44BC, is not hot-headed Cassius or scheming Brutus. They are, as they always have been, far out of their depth, minnows in a political ocean patrolled by sharks. No: the man pulling the strings, the orchestrator of his own death, is none other than Julius Caesar himself.
The outcome is exactly as he had planned it. In every particular, he gets what he wants. The naive and foolish conspirators, on the other hand, go away empty-handed, beaten by superior tradecraft and the poverty of their own imagination. In defending the republic they ensured its demise. In fighting dictatorship they have guaranteed its victory. By killing Caesar they have made him immortal The flashing blades on the ides of March delivered to Julius Caesar exactly what he had planned that they should: immortality....the verdict is unconventional but unavoidable. Suicide by conspirator.

....bottom line: to every Roman family, Caesar bequeathed enough money for them to live for up to three months at his expense. $ocial $ecurity??!! The crowd at the funeral broke into a frenzy of posthumous adulation. His adopted heir, Octavian, eventually became the first Roman Emperor as Augustus. Caesar saw it all coming and turned his demise into a useful political tool: He was the first historical Roman to be officially deified. He was posthumously granted the title Divus Iulius (the divine Julius ) by decree of the Roman Senate on 1 January 42 BC. The appearance of a comet during was taken as confirmation of his divinity. http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artLTimesEtTuJulius3903.php