Picture of the Day and B'Days for March 15

Posted March 14, 2009, 9:26 pm in


Today is Sunday, March 15, the 74th day of 2009. There are 291 days left in the year.

"Beware the Ides of March," the soothsayer urges Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Despite the forewarning, Caesar is stabbed in the back by his friend Marcus Brutus on March 15 in 44 B.C. Caesar falls and utters his famous last words, "Et tu, Brute?"

Phil Lesh

On March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting rights for all, just eight days after racial violence erupted in Selma, Alabama. Using the phrase "we shall overcome," Johnson says that "every American citizen must have an equal right to vote."

On March 15, 1985, symbolics.com, the first Internet domain name, is registered.

On March 15, 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

Today's Birthdays: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 76. Actor Judd Hirsch is 74. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggat is 74. Grateful Dead guitarist Phil Lesh is 69. Mike Love of the Beach Boys is 68. Musician Sly Stone is 65. Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, is 54. Poison frontman and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels is 46.

Picture of the Day: Doggone it, are his hands full! British dog owner Adam Morley takes his 18 Dalmatian puppies for a walk before they leave for their new homes.  The adorable pups were part of a record-setting litter for their mother, Button. Just a year ago, she gave birth to a litter of 15 -- the average litter for Dalmatians is eight or nine. She's giving the Octomom a run for her money!




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