March 15

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March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). There are 291 days remaining.

In the Roman calendar March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

44 BC - Ides of March: Julius Caesar, General of the Roman Republic, was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent
1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1827 - The University of Toronto is chartered
1848 - Revolution breaks out in Pest. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1877 - The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia
1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
1909 - Selfridges department store opens in London
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1919 - The American Legion forms in Paris
1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1939 - World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1956 - The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
1961 - South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth
1963 - Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, was put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh.
1988 - Publication of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory
1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 - Gulf War: Iraqis hang British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1990 - The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
1991 - Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
2004 - Announcement of the Discovery of 90377 Sedna

Births

1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, (d. 1845)
1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1800 - Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist, (d. 1889)
1813 - John Snow, English physician who pioneered the use of ether as an anaesthetic, (d. 1858)
1830 - Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910, (d. 1914)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, composer (d. 1916)
1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901, (d. 1917)
1865 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer
1882 - Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner, (d. 1882)
1886 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary, (d. 1886)
1897 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter
1905 - Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
1907 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer, (d. 1981)
1912 - Lightnin Hopkins, musician, (d. 1982)
1916 - Harry James, musician, band leader, (d. 1983)
1919 - Lawrence Tierney, actor, (d. 2002)
1920 - Lawrence Sanders, novelist, (d. 1998)
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
1933 - Roy Clark, country musician
1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist
1935 - Judd Hirsch, actor
1940 - Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead
1941 - Mike Love, musician ("The Beach Boys")
1943 - David Cronenberg, director
1944 - Sly Stone, singer
1944 - Elisabeth Plessen, writer
1945 - Mark J. Green, lawyer, author and public official
1947 - Ry Cooder, guitarist
1955 - Dee Snider, singer
1959 - Harold Baines, former Major League Baseball player
1961 - Fabio, model
1961 - Ervin Nemeth, educator, author, translator
1962 - Terence Trent D'Arby, singer
1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, manga artist
1971 - Mark McGrath, musician ("Sugar Ray")
1972 - Mark Hoppus, musician ("Blink 182")
1976 - Maria Jo�o Amaral, musician ("Orquestra Plectro")
1987 - Taiwan Brown, actor, VJ, webmaster. ( http://www.taiwanbrown.com )

Deaths

44 BC - Julius Caesar, (b. 100 BC)
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered by Theoderic the Great), (b. 435)
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal and linguist
1891 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer, (b. 1819)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist, (b. 1813)
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer, (b. 1890)
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter, (b. 1864)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate, (b. 1906)
1983 - Rebecca West, writer, (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, English comedian, (b. 1922)
1990 - Farzad Barzoft, Iranian-born journalist working for the Observer, hanged as a spy in Iraq
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football star, broadcaster
1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director, (b. 1925)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, writer, Olympic gold-medal rower, (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, actress, (b. 1909)
2002 - Sylvester Weaver, television executive
2004 - John Pople, (b. 1925) Theoretical chemist, Nobel laureate

Holidays and observances

In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March.
Turkey buzzards return to Hinkley, Ohio (http://www.roadmuseum.org/oh__7101.htm/).

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