What Happened On March 15

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Historical Events on March 15

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221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal business firm, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty

493 Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, murders King Odoacer of Italian republic with his sword at a banquet in Ravenna
933 Boxing of Riade: German Male monarch Henry I beats Magyars
1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1360 French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
1391 Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Kingdom of spain stirs up people to attack Jews

1526 French Dauphin Francis and his brother Henry exchanged equally hostages for their father Francis I, start four years of captivity in Spain nether Treaty of Madrid
1529 Second Diet of Speyer convenes, condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luther's teachings); official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term "Protestantism"
1560 Failed assault on purple palace in Amboise, France
1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris

Historic Outcome

1580 Spanish King Philip 2 puts 25,000 gold coins on head of Prince William of Orange

1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on Britain

Historic Upshot

1778 Nootka Audio, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain James Cook

Battle of Involvement

1781 Battle of Guilford Court House; British troops under Cornwallis defeat American forces but their heavy losses led to ceding of territory and a strategic loss

Historic Event

1783 In an emotional spoken language in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened insurrection d'etat never takes place.

1812 1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd country of the Union
1827 Academy of Toronto is chartered
1848 A revolution breaks out in Republic of hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids nigh Gallatin, Tennessee
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
1867 Michigan becomes 1st country to tax property to support a academy
1869 With 10 salaried players, Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseball'due south kickoff professional team
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test 5 England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following twenty-four hour period
1877 Cricket'south inaugural Examination match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Basis; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
1885 1st functioning of Caesar Franck'southward "Lesson Djinns"
1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 6 Us & German warships sunk past a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
1892 1st escalator patented past inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 New York Land unveils automatic election booth (voting machine)
1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden

Historic Upshot

1906 Britons Henry Rolls, Charles Royce and Claude Johnson formalize their existing partnership every bit Rolls Royce Ltd

1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote

Sports History

1912 Legendary pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511-315 win-loss tape

1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed past German submarine & sinks in North Sea
1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops hunt Pancho Villa into United mexican states
1916 University of Ghent taken under Dutch control

Historic Outcome

1917 Nicholas Ii, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]

1919 American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1922 France, which upward until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials every bit payment
1922 Sultan Faud crowned King of Arab republic of egypt, England recognizes Arab republic of egypt

1926 Belgium's "blackness mon", franc falls

1930 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 U.s. Data Service opens

Sports History

1935 Vivid batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270

1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
1937 Offset American blood banking concern in a infirmary is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois

Historic Effect

1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Understanding, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia

Historic Outcome

1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells plenty for Germany, smelt the residual

1941 Blizzard in Northward Dakota kills 151 people
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Coffee
1943 Cerise Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Centrolineal bombing

1945 As a symbol of wartime baseball, Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators
1945 Billboard publishes its 1st anthology chart (King Cole Trio is #i)
1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens

Agreement of Interest

1946 British Prime Government minister Cloudless Attlee agrees with India'south right to independence

1947 John Lee appointed 1st blackness commissioned officeholder in US Navy

1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

Knighthood

1949 Cricket'due south master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-Full general of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen'south Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne

1949 WICU Television channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 WLWD (now WDTN) Boob tube channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize winning opera "The Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 269 performances
1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean State of war
1952 "2 in the Alley" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Sea

Golf game Tournament

1953 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women'southward Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders championship by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls

1953 Due west Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, two-i

1954 WSJV Television receiver channel 28 in Elkhart-South Curve, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dutch second Chamber requires Tv set licenses
1955 US Air Forcefulness unveils self-guided missile
1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 "My Off-white Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances

1958 "Torso Beautiful" musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after threescore performances
1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-iii draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England's 16th FN championship
1958 KULR TV channel eight in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting

Sports History

1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-tape 56-point game

1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear exam in Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (of 36 total for 1958)
1959 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women'due south Golf game, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title past ane stroke from Betsy Rawls
1959 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 Robert Foster sets record past staying underwater 13 grand 42.5 s
1959 WILX Goggle box channel ten in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve, also known equally John D. Pennekamp Coral Reef Country Park, established as 1st underwater park, off the coast of Florida
1961 South Africa withdraws from British Democracy
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz water ice skate spring
1962 Five inquiry groups denote the discovery of anti-matter
1962 KATU Boob tube channel two in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances

1963 WFAN TV aqueduct 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 T.G.I. Friday'due south 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 WMFE Television receiver channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California
1967 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum, Netherlands
1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa eastward Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/iv")

Historic Upshot

1968 British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns after having a drunken row with Prime Minister Harold Wilson

1968 Diocese of Rome announces that information technology "deplored the concept", merely wouldn't prohibit rock & curl masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri

Music History

1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "virtually spectacular guitarist in the earth"

1968 Insurgence in S Yemen
1968 US Mint stops ownership & selling gold
1969 U.s.a. Supreme Courtroom Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Tearing Chinese-Russian edge dispute leaves 100s dead
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell'southward "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1971 Chatrooms brand their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Cyberspace

1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1972 Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a flop in Belfast; an RUC officer is likewise killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone
1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 "That's the Manner of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th V Nations Rugby Title
1976 Failed coup in Niger
1977 "Eight is Plenty" premieres on ABC-Tv set
1977 Television comedy "Three's Company" starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
1977 United states House of Representatives begins 90 mean solar day test of televising its sessions
1978 -21] performance Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanese republic
1978 A'southward trade Vida Blue to Giants for seven players & $390,000
1978 Prc performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1979 Apparat releases Newdos + two.ane for Radio Shack's TRS-80

1979 Sarfraz takes ix-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1980 England beats Scotland, thirty-eighteen at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it'due south 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Thou Slam and 15th Triple Crown
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 Extra Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1984 Tanzania adopts constitution

Boxing Championship Fight

1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing championship

1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
1985 U.s.a. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1986 Scotland (x-9 5 Ireland) and French republic (29-10 five England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC later on 368 performances
1987 Last twenty-four hour period in Examination cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 NZ beat WI by v wickets in Jeremy Coney'southward last Test Cricket
1987 U.s. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL'south St Louis Cardinals officially motion to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Regal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #i uniform
1989 US Section of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil

1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults globe tape six.14m (xx anxiety 1 3/4)
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
1992 33rd SEC Men's Basketball game Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, eighty-54
1992 39th ACC Men'southward Basketball Tournament: #1 Knuckles beats #xx North Carolina, 94-74
1992 Un officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 five Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200

1994 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 French republic beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright 5 Nations Rugby Championship and fifth Triple Crown; wing-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 An earthquake measuring half dozen.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran

Music History

1998 Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Cabaret", starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, opens at Club Expo Theater, NYC; runs for two,377 performances and wins iv Tony Awards

2001 The earth'due south largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions
2003 24th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Connecticut, 74-56

Celebrated Event

2003 Hu Jintao becomes President of the People's Republic of Prc

2004 Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the uttermost natural object in the Solar system so far observed

Hall of Fame

2004 Rock and Gyre Hall of Fame inductees: Jackson Browne; The Dells; George Harrison; Prince; Bob Seger; Traffic; ZZ Top; and Jann Wenner

2006 18th Democracy Games open in Melbourne, Australia