44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1767 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) is born.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1858 – Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist and academic, co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science (d. 1954) is born.
1866 – Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, invented the Paper clip (d. 1910) is born.
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1887 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman, founded General Foods (d. 1973) is born.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court judge is born.
1941 – Mike Love, American singer-songwriter (The Beach Boys and Celebration) is born.
1943 – Sly Stone, American singer-songwriter and producer (Sly and the Family Stone) is born.
1946 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003) is born.
1956 – My Fair Lady debuts on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1963 – Bret Michaels, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Poison) is born.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1975 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek-Argentinian businessman (b. 1900) dies.
1975 – will.i.am, American rapper, producer, and actor (The Black Eyed Peas and Atban Klann) is born.
1978 – Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater is born.
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
2007 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer, businessman and former commishner of Major League Baseball (b. 1926) dies.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2014 – David Brenner, American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1936) dies.
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