Notable Historical Events on March 15th
March 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
44 |
Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. |
BC AD | |
221 |
Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty. |
351 |
Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. |
493 |
Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy |
933 |
Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren |
1311 |
Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. |
1360 |
French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea |
1382 |
Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy |
1391 |
Jew-hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews |
1493 |
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his 1st New World voyage |
1545 |
First meeting of the Council of Trent. |
1560 |
Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France |
1562 |
General Francois de Guise enters Paris |
1580 |
Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange |
1672 |
King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence |
1729 |
Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows, N Orleans |
1744 |
French King Louis XV declares war on Britain |
1778 |
Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook |
1781 |
Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses) |
1783 |
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place. |
1812 |
1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River |
1820 |
Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union |
1827 |
Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes |
1827 |
University of Toronto is chartered |
1848 |
A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party. |
1855 |
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine |
1862 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN |
1864 |
Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA |
1867 |
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university |
1869 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team |
1869 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7 |
1875 |
1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested |
1877 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG |
1885 |
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns" |
1887 |
1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) |
1889 |
6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die |
1892 |
1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) |
1892 |
NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) |
1897 |
1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden |
1901 |
Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th |
1903 |
After years of fighting between the British and the rebellious Africans, the British claim supremacy over 500,000 square miles, thus controlling all northern Nigeria |
1906 |
Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd |
1907 |
Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote |
1908 |
1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" |
1912 |
Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins |
1913 |
1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) |
1913 |
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court |
1916 |
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea |
1916 |
Gen Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Villa into Mexico; they stay 10 for 10 months |
1916 |
University of Gent goes under Dutch control |
1917 |
[OS Mar 2] Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates, nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to secceed him |
1919 |
American Legion forms (Paris) |
1922 |
1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) |
1923 |
Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke |
1926 |
Belgium's "black monday", franc falls |
1928 |
Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) |
1930 |
1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY |
1930 |
1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched |
1933 |
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination |
1934 |
US Information Service opens |
1935 |
George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston |
1937 |
1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL) |
1937 |
1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC) |
1939 |
Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independent |
1940 |
Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest |
1941 |
Blizzard in ND kills 151 |
1943 |
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java |
1943 |
Red Army evacuates Kharkov |
1944 |
Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing |
1945 |
17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way", Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win |
1945 |
Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators |
1945 |
Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) |
1945 |
Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens |
1945 |
Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY |
1946 |
British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence |
1947 |
John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy |
1948 |
Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia |
1948 |
Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine |
1948 |
WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances |
1950 |
NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker" |
1951 |
Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
1952 |
"2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs |
1952 |
Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean |
1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1953 |
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 |
1954 |
"CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar |
1954 |
WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses |
1955 |
US Air Force unveils self-guided missile |
1955 |
WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs |
1956 |
Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ |
1957 |
3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) |
1958 |
"Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances |
1958 |
KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts |
1958 |
Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled |
1958 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1959 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1959 |
Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway |
1959 |
Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s |
1959 |
WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) |
1960 |
National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
1961 |
South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth |
1962 |
Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances |
1962 |
5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter |
1962 |
Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump |
1962 |
KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season |
1963 |
WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
LBJ asks for a War on Poverty |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965 |
LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
1965 |
T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC |
1965 |
WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand |
1966 |
Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles |
1967 |
AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum |
1967 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil |
1967 |
WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4") |
1968 |
British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns |
1968 |
LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" |
1968 |
US Mint stops buying & selling gold |
1968 |
Uprising in South Yemen |
1968 |
Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri |
1969 |
US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns |
1969 |
Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead |
1970 |
Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances |
1970 |
Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan |
1971 |
Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet |
1972 |
Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 |
1972 |
NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle |
1972 |
"The Godfather", starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in New York |
1972 |
Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer iskilled in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone |
1974 |
Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns |
1975 |
Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo |
1975 |
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) |
1976 |
Failed coup in Niger |
1977 |
"Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV |
1977 |
US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions |
1977 |
First official test cricket match is played between Australia and England at Melbourne |
1978 |
-21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon |
1978 |
A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000 |
1978 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1979 |
Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
1979 |
Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick |
1979 |
Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test |
1981 |
"Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC |
1981 |
Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
1981 |
Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker |
1982 |
Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan |
1982 |
KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) |
1982 |
Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days |
1983 |
Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
1984 |
10th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans win (TV) |
1984 |
Tanzania adopts constitution |
1985 |
Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). |
1986 |
Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme |
1987 |
"Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances |
1987 |
"Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances |
1987 |
Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner |
1987 |
NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket |
1987 |
US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay |
1988 |
Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop |
1988 |
NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK |
1988 |
NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto |
1989 |
Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position |
1989 |
NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform |
1990 |
Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil |
1991 |
4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King |
1991 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4) |
1991 |
Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil |
1992 |
Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
1992 |
UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation |
1993 |
Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200 |
1994 |
8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win |
1994 |
Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit |
1997 |
Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals |
1998 |
"Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC |
1998 |
Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship |
1999 |
Pluto again becomes outermost planet |
2001 |
The world's largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions |
2003 |
Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China. |
2004 |
Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed. |
2013 |
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa |
2013 |
16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico |
2013 |
Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men's 2013 World Figure Skating Championships |
2016 |
S.Korea says N.Korea has yet to acquire missile re-entry technology |
2016 |
North Korean leader says will soon conduct nuclear, missile tests |
2016 |
Putin says Russia to intensify role in Syria peace process |
2016 |
Turkey struggles for response as violence spills beyond Kurdish southeast |
2016 |
Donald Trump: Disappearing middle class needs better deal on trade |
2016 |
Former Brazil president Lula 'to become minister' |
2016 |
Myanmar parliament elects first civilian president in decades |
2017 |
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show |
2017 |
Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005: White House |
2017 |
British security official denies UK spy agency eavesdropped on Trump |
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