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What happened in history on March 15th?
Year | Name |
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2022 | The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse. |
2019 | Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. |
2019 | Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. |
2019 | Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. |
2011 | Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. |
2008 | Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people. |
1991 | Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. |
1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. |
1986 | Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. |
1978 | Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. |
1974 | Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. |
1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. |
1961 | At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect. |
1951 | Iranian oil industry is nationalized. |
1943 | World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies. |
1939 | Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. |
1939 | Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic,[26] but is annexed by Hungary the next day. |
1927 | The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford. |
1922 | After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. |
1921 | Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian. |
1918 | Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins. |
1917 | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.[19] |
1907 | The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held. |
1888 | Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888. |
1877 | First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia. |
1875 | Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States. |
1874 | France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina. |
1848 | A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party. |
1823 | Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica. |
1820 | Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state. |
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'état never takes place. |
1672 | King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians. |
1564 | Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects. |
1311 | Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. |
933 | After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. |
897 | Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen. |
856 | Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility. |
493 | Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together. |
474 | Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. |
44 | The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. |
Here is a random list who born on March 15. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1972 | Mike Tomlin, American football player and coach |
1916 | Harry James, American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (d. 1983) |
1993 | Aleksandra Krunić, Serbian tennis player |
1791 | Charles Knight, English author and publisher (d. 1873) |
1830 | Élisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist (d. 1905) |
1928 | Bob Wilber, American clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2019) |
1968 | Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer |
1932 | Arif Mardin, Turkish-American record producer (d. 2006) |
1961 | Terry Cummings, American basketball player |
1933 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American lawyer and judge (d. 2020) |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 15. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1983 | Rebecca West, English author and critic (b. 1892) |
1897 | James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814) |
1942 | Rachel Field, American author and poet (b. 1894) |
1575 | Annibale Padovano, Italian organist and composer (b. 1527) |
2013 | Booth Gardner, American businessman and politician, Governor of Washington (b. 1936) |
1997 | Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925) |
2010 | Kazim al-Samawi, Iraqi poet (b. 1925) |
1842 | Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760) |
1820 | Clement Mary Hofbauer, Austrian priest and saint (b. 1751) |
2019 | Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (b. 1948) |