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THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 15

March 15 in history

44 BC

The Ides of March. Caesar is stabbed twenty-three times at a meeting of the Senate — by men convinced they are saving the Republic they are about to bury.

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1917 — February Revolution

8-15 Mar 1917 — Bread queues in Petrograd become a general strike; the garrison mutinies rather than fire. In one week the Romanov dynasty, three centuries old, is gone. The Provisional Government chooses to keep fighting — a fatal choice.

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1939 — Occupation of Prague

15 Mar 1939 — Hitler tears up Munich and seizes the rest of the Czech lands. Appeasement dies here.

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1969 — Clash on the Ussuri

2–15 Mar 1969 — Soviet and Chinese troops kill each other over a frozen river island; Moscow sounds out Washington about striking China’s nuclear sites. The communist world is now two rivals — and both need America.

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