Famous Events – 15 March

[mikesilvia]

I get these once and a while at work from our base historian. These are famous events that have happened on March 15. Enjoy!

44 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar assassinated by members of the Roman Senate 1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, New Orleans
1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River 1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1889 - 6 US & German warships sink in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1916 - The 1st Aero Squadron, under Capt. Benjamin D. Foulois, became the first U.S. aviation unit to engage in field operations when it joined Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing’s 15,000 man punitive expedition against Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. The expedition lasts 10 months and comes up empty.
1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
1919 - American Legion forms (Paris)
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
1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independent
1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1950 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a basic decision on guided missile roles and missions, gave the U.S. Air Force formal and exclusive responsibility for strategic guided missiles.
1951 - Persia (now Iran) nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1951 - A Boeing KC–97A Stratofreighter tanker successfully refueled a B–47 jet bomber in flight, demonstrating the bomber’s long-range potential.
1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1961 - South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 - AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 - The Sikorsky HH–53B, the largest and fastest helicopter in the USAF inventory, made its first flight. It would be used for air rescue operations in Southeast Asia.
1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns 1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan 1970 - The overseas portion of the worldwide Automatic Voice Network, or AUTOVON, was completed. (Now Defense Switched Network)
1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 - -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFC
1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet

[ashley832]

Thanks for sharing. Some of them things I havent even heard of! lol Guess I learn somethin everyday..

Ashley=)

[Shayne1911]

Wow a lot has happened on this day! It's also my biology teacher's birthday! Thanks for sharing!!!

Shayne

[Lesracing]

There was another special occurance on March 15th that I didn;t see on this list.

I married my beautiful wife 26 years ago on March 15th!