44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.
1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea.
1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
1922 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment.
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. Germany occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia reneging on the Munich Agreement.
1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.
1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War.
2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.
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