The Forboding Toga Party

"The following story, too, is told by many. A certain seer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides; and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: "Well, the Ides of March are come," and the seer said to him softly: "Ay, they are come, but they are not gone." -- Plutarch

It seems that on this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar's posse of homeys whacked him while he had his back turned. He was said to have been warned to "beware of the ides of March", or March 15th. Incidentally, the Latin term "Kalendrium" means "account book", and the shortened version "Kalend" (from which our term "calender" is derived), was used by the Romans to denote the first day of the Month... because just as it is a couple of thousand years later, that's when the bills are due. What? No grace period???