On This Day:
Sunday March 15, 2015 This is the 74th day of the year, with 291 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: rice With the exception of the type called upland rice, the plant is grown on submerged land in the coastal plains, tidal deltas, and river basins of tropical, semitropical, and temperate regions. The seeds are sown in prepared beds, and when the seedlings are 25 to 50 days old, they are transplanted to a field, or paddy, that has been enclosed by levees and submerged under 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 inches) of water, remaining submerged during the growing season. The harvested rice kernel, known as paddy, or rough, rice, is enclosed by the hull, or husk.
Holidays Feast day of St. Longinus, St. Louise de Marillac, St. Zacharias, pope, St. Lucretia, St. Matrona, and St. Clement Mary Hofbauer.
Hungary: Anniversary of the Revolution of 1848.
Belarus: Constitution Day.
Ides of March.
Liberia: J.J. Roberts Day (first president).
Events 1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
1892 - American inventor Jesse Reno patented the first escalator.
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
1917 - During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents.
1919 - The American Legion was founded, in Paris.
1937 - The first blood bank was established, in Chicago's Cook County Hospital.
1964 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married (each other) for the first time.
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
2002 - Andrea Yates of Houston, Texas, was sentenced to life in prison for drowning her five children in the bathtub.
Births 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States of American (1829-1837).
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Deaths 44 B.C.E. - Roman dictator Julius Caesar, assassinated by a group of 60 conspirators that included Brutus and Cassius.
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