This Day in History, March 15

It is March 15, one of the most famous days in history, owing to March 15, 44 BC, when a group of Roman senators chose to express their disagreement with Julius Caesar' by stabbing him twenty three times. Since that time March 15 has often been perceived as a day of ill omen. Ill omen or no, it is certainly a day on which much has occurred in history.
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[@michaelmanning5379]

Alliteration ain't annoying. It's entirely entertaining..

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Absolutely agree. Genuinely grateful for the kind compliment.

[@Svensk7119]

What brought about the alliteration, I would ask?

[@OfficerCharon]

​@Svensk7119 whenever one wishes well to a whim, alliteration adds an ability to amuse and astound, and asserts allegorical authority.

[@Svensk7119]

@@OfficerCharon Yes, yes, but my question was for THG. I wished to know if he had a why beyond mere want.

[@SuperCatacata]

Somebody needs to stop you all 😂

[@dougkippen4971]

"Pernicious puncturing". 😂

[@trumpetmom8924]

Yes! And all of the other alliterations as well. 😂

[@EricDKaufman]

Your alliteration is epic. Don't stop!!!

[@jeffking8890]

It was a mostly peaceful evening for Caesar surrounded by his friends.

[@kevinwiercyski4118]

My brother was born on March 15th. He lived a turbulent life. Started with a horrible sinus infection leading to encephalitis. This left him with a minor brain injury and seizures. Later on he had a seizure and fell into a pool and drowned. My mom was able to revive him. He spent some time in a coma at the hospital. When he woke up he was mentally 3rd grade. At the age of 19 he had another seizer and died in the ocean. Beware the ides of March is very powerful with me. Happy birthday Robby.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Tragic story. So sorry for your loss. Happy Birthday Robby.

[@jfu5222]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[@kylebarton778]

Not only do I love your "This Day in History" episodes but your wordplay in this one was quite enjoyable.

[@user-oh2hs6jh5x]

Man, I never knew so many murders and historic events happened on March 15th. Moral of the story: Stay in your house, don't go outside, and certainly don't pi^^ anyone off.

[@Maudit_Anglais]

LOL

[@me3333]

Anybody that has/had Billy Joel, Springsteen, McCartney, Springfield, Seager, Harrison, Prince, ZZ Top, ABBA and Genesis in their vinyl collection has my approval. You sir have excellent music taste

[@user-oh2hs6jh5x]

Class is about to begin. Please be seated.

[@Ohnoyobronoflow]

Ah yes... history and alliteration. Two things that are always a good time when presented by The History Guy!

[@markhodge7]

"Pernicious puncturing." Wow! Total respect for your command of the language. Alliteration included!! It's going to be tough to include it myself in a conversation, but I'm cocked and loaded! Thanks History Guy.

[@inisipisTV]

Don't forget Julius' "Perfidious Perforation."😅

[@christopherfoote1284]

The alliteration is wonderful. Thank you sir!😂

[@darringasper7487]

I love the "pernicious puncturing" alliteration, very nice.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Jim Henson came so close: Bats in Space would've been a great muppet show segment!

[@mj99a]

HG's aggressive amusing alliteration abundantly appreciated...

[@revel8r413]

The History Guy is prolifically popular!

[@mollybell5779]

I have learned SO MUCH from THG. It's funny, because I *hated* history all the way through high school. It was just a bunch of uninteresting events and dates in big, thick books. I did get interested in history in my twenties, and now I just can't get enough of it. Thank you so much for this channel. I wish I would have had a teacher like Lance when I was in high school, but I'm eternally grateful to be able to learn from him now.

[@veramae4098]

Look for "Outline of History" by H.G. Wells. It's terribly outdated by now, but still a good foundation.

[@donalddodson7365]

@mollybell5779 If I were the Chairperson of a university history department, I would require every future history teacher to complete a 3 unit course of "The History Guy Pedantic Anthologies of Engaging History 301." 😂🤣😀 I was fortunate to grow up in a family that made history a common meal time delicacy between bites. Blessings.

[@goodun2974]

And then there's Mel Brooks' original "History of the World".....😉

[@mollybell5779]

@@goodun2974 lol, a lot of history has taken place since I saw that one

[@kevinmiller7792]

Drunk with words are we?🤔😂😂😂👍😉. Keep up the great work.

[@ltdees2362]

"This Day in History" are my favorite episodes .. 74 years breathing on earth and you show me something new with each episode 😎 I never stop learning, thank you Mr Geiger !! 💖

[@jaminova_1969]

THG is something like, if my encyclopedia set could talk and send me updates!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

I remember a story that you shared on the Ides of March in 1959. It was a blizzard!

[@geraldtrudeau3223]

That was more stabbing puns than I thought it was possible to do. Hats off to you sir!

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

We just got done with a 5 foot snowfall, entire county is under emergency, many people still stranded, we have a military animal boarding home in the Rockies, beware of the Ides of March... as always, wonderful job THG! 🇺🇸🐾🫡

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Sounds like a 3rd amendment issue.

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

I told him once, I told him a thousand times, I said, "Julie, don't go...!"

[@edwardphillips8460]

Great W&S skit!

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[@marinadell5950]

You Canadian?

[@edwardphillips8460]

@@marinadell5950 If you’re asking me yes.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

"Brian. A bat they called Brian. He flew, flew, flew, and flew... Flew up to be the astronaut Brian."

[@edwinwhitaker5679]

According to the Museum of London the first escalators in Great Britain was at Harrods in the year 1900. They decided to give the ladies brandy to calm them. Many ladies went round a second time.

[@notahotshot]

Amazing alliteration attracts additional attempts at almost as admirable alphabetical arrangements, often.

[@wellston2826]

I have really been enjoying these "Day in History" formats. The History Guy never dissapoints! Please contuinue the format.

[@michaelmartin4816]

Today in 2018 was when the pedestrian bridge in Orlando, FL collapsed as well.

[@emilyrauwerdink3451]

My high school HISTORY teacher was born on the Ides of March. Happy birthday, Mr. Guy!🎉🗡

[@stevedaniel1475]

LOVE "The History Guy" plugs on this one.

[@RetiredSailor60]

Good Friday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good weekend.

[@leechjim8023]

Good Friday is 2 weeks away.

[@RetiredSailor60]

@@leechjim8023 Yes I agree. I was denoting what day of the week it is in my greeting...

[@terryturman8495]

I’ve been in the land of no Wi-Fi so I haven’t been able to watch you in a while. I’ve been able to get caught up in the past few days. I am so glad you do what you do. May you have a very blessed day today .

[@marymarysmarket3508]

What a wonderful place that must have been...the land of no wi-fi

[@dinkmartini3236]

Historians often site "Et tu, Brute?" as Caesar's last words. More recent findings have concluded that his last words were "Not in the groin! Not in the groin!" I'll show myself out.

[@tygrkhat4087]

Actually, Big Julie was rather vain; so it might have been; "Not in the face!" Although, yours is funnier.

[@rayfridley6649]

AT the time of his assignation, Julius Caesar was not a dictator. He was a Roman army general. When he returned from abroad, Brutus and others were afraid that Caesar would become a dictator, hence the the assignation.

[@tygrkhat4087]

@@rayfridley6649 Assassination. Julius had a assignation with Cleopatra.

[@anthonym8586]

His actual words were "" Ouch I felt a little prick , it must be Brutus ""

[@goodun2974]

​@@tygrkhat4087, the boy's got language skills! 👍😉

[@donalddodson7365]

Thank you all, Lance and Team. This series on 'this day in history' is great. Definitely "worth remembering." 😊

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@marvwatkins7029]

The Rock and Roll Museum never has the induction because no one wants to go to Cleveland.

[@joblo2671]

"perfidious perforation" "sinister skewing" "impertinently impaled" You done that man dirty. Great CAESAR'S GHOST is coming for you!!!😂😂😂

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Happy Birthday to whoever was born on March 15th! You are truly a unique person.

[@Acousticeg]

🎸

[@ROBERTN-ut2il]

The actors at about 1-50 are the Booth Brothers - including the infamous John Wilkes - in the only time all three appeared on stage together, in a play centered around a murder.

[@davefarris2014]

Yep. I was about to comment on the same. One shot Lincoln, the other son saved Lincoln's son Robert as I recall.

[@marklamourine3130]

Whoa! what's with wanton wordsmithing?

[@patriciahowellcassity767]

Both my husband and myself was born on March 15. We meet 2015, both past 50 years old.🎉

[@mattgeorge90]

Thank you for sharing!

[@Svensk7119]

Happy Birthday, Erin!!!

[@scotto9591]

I wish I had an instructor like you in high school or college. I would probably have learned a lot more😊

[@reallyseriously7020]

I love the History Guy. Always entertaining and sometimes hilarious!

[@Planag7]

All the aliterations! XD

[@VintageCarHistory]

1:47 - Interesting that this photo includes John Wilkes Booth.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

You’re the first to notice. Those are three Booth brothers.

[@VintageCarHistory]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Aye- though Lincoln's Ides was April 15th, not March. Great video, Sir!

[@sarahartwig5920]

It's also the birthday of one of the most prolific song lyricists in history, Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love. He was born on March 15th 1941 in Southern California. Today he is 83 years old and still performing live in concert.

[@marvwatkins7029]

"On this date..."

[@unperson5713]

Bow ties are a perilous proposition, you wear it well. In my opinion, history is a collection lies we tell ourselves. What isn't? Thanks for sharing.

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@greggbaker7120]

Great Use of Words 🙂

[@HM2SGT]

I did learn something today, thank you. The Ides being a day for settling debts. 🤔👍

[@vegerad]

Always love the things I learn on these videos. A couple things don't match what I learned in school (the people who told me you could see the Great Wall from space, so). The ides of a month was the middle, not one day prior. In the Roman calendar March had only 28 days, making the ides the 14th (or with -1, the 13th?). Maybe tonight at 9:30 I'll do exactly what I did 47 years ago, watch the 3s Company pilot.

[@DrBruceWayne423]

The history guy, I just wanna say thank you this is an awesome video as always your content is extremely entertaining, thought inspiring, and for a pseudo history buff like myself , absolutely necessary to get through the day! :-) Thank you again for all your great content

[@fredderf3207]

Holy Bomber Pilots! You got the Bandit Jug from 12 O' Clock High!

[@jahyoda]

Fantastic...I'm not going to move a muscle today 🤣

[@goodun2974]

March 15th (1947) is roots-rocker and slide guitarist Ry Cooder's birthday. He has yet to be inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame despite having played for and with the Rolling Stones, Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Taj Mahal, Randy Newman, David Lindley, John Hiatt, John Lee Hooker, the Chieftains, and many many more, as well as movie soundtrack work on Southern Comfort, Paris Texas, the Long Riders and other films. You can hear him playing slide guitar on the Stones' Sister Morphine," and he claims to have originated the "Honky-tonk Women" guitar riff.

[@user-nt4zn3mz1g]

I love the alliteration!

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@froginthewaves8450]

AWESOME VIDEO!

[@gradyrm237]

One of my favorite days. Ides may mean middle but its relative. Also a great crossword answer

[@simon_lola008]

R.I.P. Brian

[@milosterwheeler2520]

And something may yet happen today that will deserve to be added to future updates of this topic. I hope it is something good and not bad.

[@dbicht]

Always interesting.

[@desperado8605]

Quite the poet today. Love it

[@kellybasham3113]

Love your videos

[@cathycrandall5264]

Yet another fascinating episode- thank you history guy! However, I have my own memories of March 15 because it was 38 years ago today that my mother died. She had been an English teacher and she went into the hospital the week before she died and every day she kept repeating “beware the ides of March “ And then she ended up dying on March 15😢 I found out several years later that her father, (who was my grandfather who died when I was two so I do not remember him),had also died on March 15 at the exact same age & of the same illness😮exactly 25 years before my mom died so it is quite a date in my memory😔But I do still always enjoy all your episodes, I watch them in the mornings as I am getting ready for work😊

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

So sorry for your loss.

[@cathycrandall5264]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thank you Lance. I truly enjoy all your episodes-my favorites are of the mid-1800’s pioneer times 👏

[@seatedliberty]

Don't let your linguistic legerdemain lapse, maintain masterful mouth machinations to entertain, enthrall, and enrapture everyone's ears.

[@johnopalko5223]

I used to annoy my wife because I insisted on calling it "Toys Ya Us" because Я is the Cyrillic letter "ya."

[@jaybouchard5997]

Great video Please do a video maybe about Hoover Dam

[@jamesmurray8558]

The day was good, went by my house. The grass was cut, the rain stop, and the sun came out. Beautiful day.

[@mariebelladonna437]

Also, one has to wonder if some of these "soothsayers" were less "mystical" and more "in on it"...

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Keep that content coming.

[@TrickiVicBB71]

A great listen

[@russwoodward8251]

A good day to lay low. Thanks History Guy!

[@lesliegriffith9830]

My brother celebrated his 74th birthday today, March 15th.

[@lizj5740]

I didn't find the alliteration annoying; I enjoyed it.

[@Tool-Meister]

I played in a Garage Band in the late 1960s. When we began recording, our record company insisted we change our name to the “Soothsayers “. I lobbied long and hard to call us “The Ides of March”. I lost. Sure enough, a band popped up in the early 70s name, “The Ides of March”. Go figure…

[@doubleddddan]

Fantastic writing and delivery!Thank You!!!!,....and your writer/wife?....or kids❤❤❤

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you! I wrote this script. The writer is always credited in the description.

[@onanthebarbarian9883]

"Et tu Brute?" "Et me, buddy."

[@brianhoffman7249]

I really enjoy all of your videos. They are informative and entertaining at the same time. Any chance you would consider a video on the Johnstown, PA flood of 1889. Over 2,200 people lost their lives. It is history that I feel needs to be remembered. Thank you for the great videos.

[@goodun2974]

On March 15th of 2002 Yoko Ono unveiled a 7 foot bronze statue of John Lennon at the newly renamed John Lennon airport in Liverpool.

[@jaewok5G]

didn't caesar fight some pirates?

[@General_Confusion]

That old Julius Caesar, he was a bit of a lad.

[@brucelytle1144]

I always remember today as Rocky (of Rocky's Bar & Grill in PB Ca) Birthday! Happy Birthday Rocky!

[@MulToyVerse]

I might be wrong, but in the photo of actors doing a scene from Julius Caesar, was that the one involving John Wilks Booth, another political assassin?

[@cynthiaslater7445]

It's interesting that you used a photo of the Booth brothers who were famous players of Shakespeare.

[@CassieArapakis]

March 15th is my wedding anniversary. 11 years and going strong ❤

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Congratulations!

[@bobbyvee9950]

Ill omens? I'll have you know we adopted our rescued dog, named 'Ides', on a March 15. She is a good omen!

[@petenielsen6683]

The ides of March 2003 was certainly a problem day for me. It was the day I had a stroke as a side effect of chemo therapy. I was 34 years old give or take 13 days. But it sure beats dying of cancer.

[@corporalvideo26]

I wanted to leave a comment with the same alliteration but, after trying to figure out what I could say, I just gave up and will say well done.

[@jamesgazin9447]

LoL! That thumbnail made me think that Little Caesar has spent too much time sampling his own wares.

[@Aramis419]

I'll admit, I did kind of zone out for a bit, until I heard "Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel" - "WHOA, TOTALLY BACK ON TRACK, WHAT ELSE YA GOT, LANCE?!"

[@cindybain6054]

I love this 🤩

[@DanielMartinez-lz3ot]

History Guy, you missed one of the most important March 15th fact. My birthday! I'm willing to overlook this slight because I recognize how busy you are, but don't let it happen again😉

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Birthday!

[@DanielMartinez-lz3ot]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I'm so tickled you replied. You are the greatest!

[@MartyFox]

Thank you for making us ware!

[@Guangrui]

My recollection is that it was in March 2003 that Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as state President (also Chair of State Military Commission, which is just an empty shell of the party one), the replacement of General Secretary already happened in the previous Autumn

[@panzerabwerkanone]

John Wilkes Booth assassin of President Abraham Lincoln played the part of Brutus, the slayer of tyrants, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

[@Delatta1961]

The only thing missing an exam at the end of class. History is my favorite subject 😊