March 10, 1862 – The first issue of U. S. Government paper money occurs as $5, $10, and $20 bills begin circulation.
March 11, 1918 – The “Spanish Influenza” first reaches America as 107 soldiers become ill at Fort Riley, Kansas. The worldwide death toll from the virus approaches 20 million by the end of the epidemic in 1920.
March 12,1933 – Eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the first of his famous “fireside chats” to a national radio audience broadcasting directly from the White House. His topic centered around his decision to close the nation’s banks in order to stop panic withdrawals, the so-called “run on the bank.”. He went on to deliver 30 more of these broadcasts between 1933 and 1944.
March 15, 44 B.C. – Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate chamber in Rome by Marcus Junius Brutus and fellow conspirators. His death is immortalized by playwright William Shakespeare and the line “Et tu, Brute?”.