15 March History


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  • 44 BC    -    Julius Caesar is assassinated by high-ranking Roman Senators.
  • 933    -    Henry the Fowler routs the raiding Magyars at Merseburg, Germany.
  • 1493    -    Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
  • 1778    -    In command of two frigates, the Frenchman la Perouse sails east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around the world.
  • 1820    -    Maine is admitted as the 23rd state.
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  • 1862    -    General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near the city of Gallatin, Tenn.
  • 1864    -    The Red River Campaign begins as the Union forces reach Alexandria, La.
  • 1892    -    New York State unveils the new automatic ballot voting machine.
  • 1895    -    Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, appears before a judge for altering cattle brands.
  • 1903    -    The British complete the conquest of Nigeria.
  • 1904    -    Three hundred Russians are killed as the Japanese shell Port Arthur in Korea.
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  • 1909    -    Italy proposes a European conference on the Balkans.
  • 1916    -    General John Pershing and his 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
  • 1934    -    Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage.
  • 1935    -    Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda bans four Berlin newspapers.
  • 1939    -    Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
  • 1944    -    Cassino, Italy is destroyed by Allied bombing.
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  • 1949    -    Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.
  • 1951    -    French General de Lattre demands that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Indochina.
  • 1955    -    The U.S. Air Force unveils the first self-guided missile.
  • 1956    -    The first performance of My Fair Lady, starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, takes place on Broadway.
  • 1960    -    Ten nations meet in Geneva to discuss disarmament.
  • 1965    -    Gamal Abdel Nasser is re-elected Egyptian President.
  • 1967    -    President Lyndon Johnson names Ellsworth Bunker as the new ambassador to Saigon. Bunker replaces Lodge.
  • 1968    -    The U.S. mint halts the practice of buying and selling gold.
  • 1991    -    Four Los Angeles police are charged in the beating of Rodney King.

  • 15 March Birthdays

  • 1767    -    Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (1829-1837).
  • 1854    -    Emil von Behring, first recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901.
  • 1916    -    Harry James, American band leader and trumpet player.
  • 1933    -    Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.