Today in History
15th March
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| 44BC conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius assassinated Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor. | ||
| 1341 In the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Louis IV, Roman Emperor, and Philip VI of France at Vincennes. | ||
| 1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel | ||
| 1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy | ||
| 1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews | ||
| 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage | ||
| 1493 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France was born | ||
| 1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France | ||
| 1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris | ||
| 1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of princeWillem of Orange | ||
| 1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence | ||
| 1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere was born | ||
| 1744 In the War of the Austrian Succession, France declared war on England. | ||
| 1767 Andrew Jackson, U.S. general, Democrat and 7th President of the United States, born. He was the first president born in South Carolina and the first to travel on a train. | ||
| 1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook | ||
| 1781 In the American Revolution, Cornwallis, with 1,900 British soldiers, defeated an American force of 4,400 in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Connecticut. | ||
| 1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia was born | ||
| 1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River | ||
| 1820 Maine became the 23rd state of the Union. | ||
| 1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes | ||
| 1827 University of Toronto is chartered | ||
| 1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land) was born | ||
| 1852 Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress was born | ||
| 1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems) was born | ||
| 1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested | ||
| 1877 The first cricket test between Australia and England was played in Melbourne, the home side winning by 45 runs. | ||
| 1889 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die | ||
| 1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) | ||
| 1892 The first escalator, the Reno Inclined Elevator, was patented by Jesse W. Reno of New York | ||
| 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa | ||
| 1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd | ||
| 1907 The first women members of parliament were elected in Finland when 19 constituencies returned women members. They took their seats on May 23. | ||
| 1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) | ||
| 1915 Netherland merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea | ||
| 1916 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 troops over the border to Mexico in a failed mission to pursue the bandit Pancho Villa. | ||
| 1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control | ||
| 1917 In Russia at Pskov, czar Nicholas II abdicated for himself and his son. His brother Grand Duke succeeded as czar. On the same day, a provisional government succeeded under Prince Georgi Lvov and with Pavel Miliukov as foreign minister. | ||
| 1919 American Legion forms (Paris) | ||
| 1922 The sultan of Egypt assumed the title of king as Fuad I. | ||
| 1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) | ||
| 1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY | ||
| 1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched | ||
| 1934 US Information Service opens | ||
| 1937 The first central blood bank to preserve blood for transfusion by refrigeration was set up at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. | ||
| 1939 The German Army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | ||
| 1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151 | ||
| 1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java | ||
| 1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov | ||
| 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing | ||
| 1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens | ||
| 1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence | ||
| 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine | ||
| 1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company | ||
| 1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean | ||
| 1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile | ||
| 1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) | ||
| 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated | ||
| 1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth | ||
| 1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton in Montreal. | ||
| 1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as president of Brazil | ||
| 1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns | ||
| 1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold | ||
| 1968 Uprising in South Yemen | ||
| 1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute | ||
| 1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan | ||
| 1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet | ||
| 1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama | ||
| 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 | ||
| 1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle | ||
| 1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns | ||
| 1975 Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, died. In 1968, he had married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. | ||
| 1976 Failed coup in Niger | ||
| 1979 Pope John Paul II published his first encyclical "Redemptor Hominis," in which he warned of the growing gap between rich and poor. | ||
| 1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker | ||
| 1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan | ||
| 1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days | ||
| 1984 Tanzania adopts constitution | ||
| 1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop | ||
| 1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK | ||
| 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Soviet parliament ruled that Lithuania's declaration of independence was invalid and that Soviet law was still in force in the Baltic republic. | ||
| 1990 Iraq hanged British-based journalist Farzad Bazoft for espionage despite global pleas for clemency. He had worked for London's Observer newspaper. | ||
| 1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil | ||
| 1991 Yugoslav President Borisav Jovic resigned after nearly a week of anti-communist protests and failing to push through an army proposal to impose emergency security measures. | ||
| 1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil | ||
| 1996 Pioneering aviation firm Fokker NV, once a byword for industrial expertise, collapsed, ending 77 years of Dutch aircraft making and triggering the biggest mass redundancy in Dutch history. | ||
| 1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet | ||