Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2013. There are 291
days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March
15, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters
for the first formal presidential press conference. On this
date: In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated
by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. In 1493,
Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first
voyage to the Western Hemisphere. In 1767, the seventh president
of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state. In 1919, members of the
American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris
for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion. In 1944,
during World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held
Monte Cassino. In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My
Fair Lady," based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opened on
Broadway. In 1962, a chartered Flying Tiger Line airplane
carrying 107 people, most of