Today, the 15th of March, is the ides of March.
All sorts of bad things happen on the ides of March. In 1876 on the ides of March, test cricket was born with a match between England and Australia.
Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer to “beware the ides of March.” Julius disregarded the warning and on this fateful day in 44 BCE he fell dead, assassinated by his friend Marcus Brutus.
Shakespeare wrote that it was the “most unkindest cut of all.” (Unkindest, or most unkind — choose one, Bill, not both). Mark Anthony at the funeral orated:
Oh what a fall there was my countrymen.
Then you and I and all of us fell down,
whilst bloody treason flourished over us
Life is a Random Draw 