^B{^#!16!15 March^N! Feast day of St Longinus, St Louise de Marillac, St Zacharias, pope, St Lucretia, St Matrona, and St Clement Mary Hofbauer.
^B{1892^B} US inventor Jesse Reno patented the first escalator. ^B{1909^B} US entrepreneur G S Selfridge opened Britain's first department store in Oxford Street, London, UK. ^B{1917^B} Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated. ^B{1933^B} Nazi leader Adolf Hitler proclaimed the Third Reich in Germany; he also banned left-wing newspapers and kosher food. ^B{1949^B} Clothes rationing in Britain ended. ^B{1964^B} Actors Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married in Montreal.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the US, ^B{1767^B}; William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, British prime minister, ^B{1779^B}; John Snow, English physician who pioneered the use of ether as an anesthetic, ^B{1813^B}; Emil von Behring, German bacteriologist, ^B{1854^B}; Mike Love, US pop singer, member of the Beach Boys, ^B{1941^B}; Ry Cooder, US guitarist, ^B{1947^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, assassinated,^B{ 44 BC^B}; Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist who invented the Bessemer converter, ^B{1898^B}; Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon, ^B{1975^B}; Rebecca West, English novelist,^B{ 1983^B}; Tommy Cooper, English comedian, ^B{1984^B}; Farzad Barzoft, Iranian-born journalist working for the ^I{Observer^I}, hanged as a spy in Iraq, ^B{1990^B}.
