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What Happened on March 15th This Day in History

Year	Name
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.

Famous People Born on March 15

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Year	Name
1904	George Brent, Irish-American actor (d. 1979)
1991	Kurt Baptiste, Australian rugby league player
1791	Charles Knight, English author and publisher (d. 1873)
1858	Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist and academic, co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science (d. 1954)
1932	Alan Bean, American astronaut and pilot (d. 2018)
1948	Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1961	Terry Cummings, American basketball player
1959	Harold Baines, American baseball player
1983	Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
1919	Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)

Famous People Deaths On March 15

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 15. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1941	Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
1983	Rebecca West, English author and critic (b. 1892)
1966	Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
1988	Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1921)
1673	Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1975	Aristotle Onassis, Greek-Argentinian businessman (b. 1906)
1990	Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-English journalist (b. 1958)
1311	Walter V, Count of Brienne
2019	Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (b. 1948)
1820	Clement Mary Hofbauer, Austrian priest and saint (b. 1751)