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Events on the 15th of March in history

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15 Mar 2044 Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
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15 Mar 0221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han dynasty.
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15 Mar 0280 Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin dynasty.
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15 Mar 0351 Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
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15 Mar 0493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
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15 Mar 0752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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15 Mar 0933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
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15 Mar 0933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
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15 Mar 1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
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15 Mar 1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
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15 Mar 1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
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15 Mar 1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
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15 Mar 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
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15 Mar 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
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15 Mar 1545 First meeting of the Council of Trent.
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15 Mar 1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
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15 Mar 1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris
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15 Mar 1562 General Fran
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15 Mar 1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya" (per capita tax).
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15 Mar 1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
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15 Mar 1672 Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
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15 Mar 1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
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15 Mar 1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
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15 Mar 1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
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15 Mar 1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
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15 Mar 1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
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15 Mar 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
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15 Mar 1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
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15 Mar 1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
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15 Mar 1819 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
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15 Mar 1820 Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
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15 Mar 1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
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15 Mar 1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
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15 Mar 1827 University of Toronto is chartered
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15 Mar 1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
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15 Mar 1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
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15 Mar 1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
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15 Mar 1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
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15 Mar 1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign : U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
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15 Mar 1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
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15 Mar 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
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15 Mar 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
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15 Mar 1874 France and Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
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15 Mar 1875 Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
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15 Mar 1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
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15 Mar 1877 First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
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15 Mar 1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia vs England at MCG
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15 Mar 1885 1st performance of C
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15 Mar 1887 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
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15 Mar 1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
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15 Mar 1888 Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
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15 Mar 1889 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
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15 Mar 1892 Liverpool F.C. is founded.
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15 Mar 1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
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15 Mar 1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
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15 Mar 1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
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15 Mar 1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th
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15 Mar 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
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15 Mar 1906 Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
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15 Mar 1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
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15 Mar 1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
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15 Mar 1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
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15 Mar 1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
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15 Mar 1913 1st Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
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15 Mar 1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
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15 Mar 1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
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15 Mar 1916 United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
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15 Mar 1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months
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15 Mar 1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
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15 Mar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3 / 3 OS]
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15 Mar 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
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15 Mar 1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)
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15 Mar 1921 Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
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15 Mar 1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
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15 Mar 1922 After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
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15 Mar 1922 1st southern radio station begins radio transmissions (WSB-AM, Atlanta GA)
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15 Mar 1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
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15 Mar 1926 The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
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15 Mar 1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
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15 Mar 1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
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15 Mar 1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York
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15 Mar 1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
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15 Mar 1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
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15 Mar 1933 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
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15 Mar 1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
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15 Mar 1934 US Information Service opens
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15 Mar 1935 Percy Shaw founded his company Reflecting Roadstuds Limited to make cat's eyes.
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15 Mar 1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs England at Kingston
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15 Mar 1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
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15 Mar 1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
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15 Mar 1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
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15 Mar 1939 Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
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15 Mar 1939 World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
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15 Mar 1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
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15 Mar 1940 G
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15 Mar 1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
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15 Mar 1941 Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
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15 Mar 1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
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15 Mar 1943 World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
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15 Mar 1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
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15 Mar 1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
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15 Mar 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
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15 Mar 1945 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way, " Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win
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15 Mar 1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York
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15 Mar 1945 World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
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15 Mar 1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WWII veteran) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
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15 Mar 1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
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15 Mar 1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
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15 Mar 1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
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15 Mar 1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
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15 Mar 1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs Western Australia
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15 Mar 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
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15 Mar 1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1950 "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
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15 Mar 1950 New York City hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
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15 Mar 1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" premieres at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
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15 Mar 1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
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15 Mar 1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
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15 Mar 1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
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15 Mar 1952 In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
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15 Mar 1952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La R
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15 Mar 1953 West Germany loses in soccer to the Netherlands, 2-1
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15 Mar 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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15 Mar 1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar
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15 Mar 1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
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15 Mar 1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
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15 Mar 1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
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15 Mar 1956 My Fair Lady debuts on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
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15 Mar 1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champion
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15 Mar 1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
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15 Mar 1958 "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
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15 Mar 1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC / ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 points
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15 Mar 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
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15 Mar 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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15 Mar 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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15 Mar 1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 minutes 42.5 seconds
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15 Mar 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
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15 Mar 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
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15 Mar 1961 South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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15 Mar 1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
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15 Mar 1962 "No Strings" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 580 performances
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15 Mar 1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
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15 Mar 1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
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15 Mar 1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1962 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
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15 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 points in an NBA season
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15 Mar 1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington DC (IND) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
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15 Mar 1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
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15 Mar 1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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15 Mar 1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
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15 Mar 1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
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15 Mar 1965 TGIFriday's 1st restaurant opens in New York NY
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15 Mar 1966 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Streisand
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15 Mar 1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
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15 Mar 1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville / Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
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15 Mar 1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
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15 Mar 1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
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15 Mar 1968 LIFE Magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
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15 Mar 1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75")
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15 Mar 1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
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15 Mar 1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
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15 Mar 1968 Uprising in South Yemen
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15 Mar 1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
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15 Mar 1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
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15 Mar 1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead)
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15 Mar 1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
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15 Mar 1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
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15 Mar 1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
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15 Mar 1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
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15 Mar 1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
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15 Mar 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
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15 Mar 1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
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15 Mar 1974 Brazilian President Garastazu M
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15 Mar 1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
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15 Mar 1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (37.99 seconds)
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15 Mar 1976 Failed coup in Nigeria
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15 Mar 1977 "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
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15 Mar 1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
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15 Mar 1977 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
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15 Mar 1978 Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
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15 Mar 1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
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15 Mar 1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
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15 Mar 1978 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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15 Mar 1979 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
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15 Mar 1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
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15 Mar 1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
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15 Mar 1981 "Broadway Follies" opens / closes at Nederlander Theater, New York City
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15 Mar 1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
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15 Mar 1981 Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
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15 Mar 1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
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15 Mar 1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
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15 Mar 1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
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15 Mar 1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
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15 Mar 1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
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15 Mar 1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
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15 Mar 1984 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (4 years after his death)
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15 Mar 1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
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15 Mar 1985 Brazilian military government ends.
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15 Mar 1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
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15 Mar 1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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15 Mar 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 Mar 1986 Collapse of the Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
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15 Mar 1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
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15 Mar 1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
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15 Mar 1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
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15 Mar 1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
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15 Mar 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
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15 Mar 1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
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15 Mar 1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
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15 Mar 1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
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15 Mar 1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
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15 Mar 1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
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15 Mar 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
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15 Mar 1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
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15 Mar 1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
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15 Mar 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
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15 Mar 1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
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15 Mar 1991 The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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15 Mar 1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
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15 Mar 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20
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15 Mar 1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
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15 Mar 1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
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15 Mar 1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
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15 Mar 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
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15 Mar 1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
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15 Mar 1994 Experts from American League certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
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15 Mar 1997 Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
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15 Mar 1998 "Cabaret, " opens at Club Expo Theater, New York City
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15 Mar 1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
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15 Mar 1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
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15 Mar 1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
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15 Mar 2011 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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