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.
1923 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke.
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.
1972 Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer is also killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone.
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