March 31st, 1930: The Motion Picture Production Code (also called the Hays Code) is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion, and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
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“the government cannot feasibly disrupt the actions of domestic communists because they’re all just a bunch of poor people reading theory”
March 30th, 1981: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
March 28th, 1584: Ivan the Terrible, first Tsar of all of Russia, dies of a stroke.
Really? They knew what a stroke was in the 1500s?
Great question! Yes, strokes have been known for much of humanity—they were described in ancient Mesopotamian and Persian records in the 2nd millennium BCE, and Hippocrates (c 400 BCE, known for the Hippocrates Oath), described them.
They wouldn’t figure out what caused a stroke for another hundred years after Ivan’s death, and they certainly couldn’t treat it, but they knew what it was!
Martin Luther was another famous 16th century figure who died of a stroke.
March 27th, 47 BCE: Cleopatra is reinstalled as queen of Egypt alongside her brother/husband, Ptolemy XIV. They took it from her other brother/husband, Ptolemy XIII.
