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44 B.C. ~ Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.

1877 ~ The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia.

1898 ~ Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist.

1906 ~ Rolls-Royce Ltd. was registered.

1916 ~ Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.

1937 ~ Death of H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer.

1975 ~ Birthday of Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess Grandmaster.

1985 ~ The computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered the first 'dot com' domain name, symbolics.com

1990 ~ British journalist Farzad Bazoft was executed for spying.

2004 ~ Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest "planet" in the Solar system so far observed.