15 March History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.