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Events from History on March 15

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
1560 : Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 : General Fran‡ois de Guise enters Paris
1580 : Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince
1580 : Willem of Orange
1672 : King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 : Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 : French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 : Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
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
1827 : University of Toronto is chartered
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 beat Antioch 41-7
1875 : 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 : Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG
1885 : 1st performance of C‚sar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 : 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 : 6 US & German warships perish 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)
1897 : 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 : Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1903 : Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 : Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 : Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 : 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1913 : 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 : Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 : Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 : Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1916 : University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 : Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
1919 : American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 : 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1923 : Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 : Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
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
1934 : US Information Service opens
1937 : 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 : 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 : Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1940 : G”ring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
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 : 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 : Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 : Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 : Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 : Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 : British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 : John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 : Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 : WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 : WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 : WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 : "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 : Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
1950 : NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 : Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 : "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs
1952 : Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La R‚union, Indian Ocean
1953 : West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 : "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 : WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 : Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 : US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 : WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 : "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs
1956 : Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
1957 : 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 : "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 : KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 : Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
1958 : USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 : game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1959 : Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 : Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 : WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 : Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 : National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 : South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 : "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 : 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 : Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 : KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 : Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC
1963 : WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 : LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 : Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1964 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 : LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1965 : T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 : WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 : 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
1966 : Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 : AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 : Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil
1967 : WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 : Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 : British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 : Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't
1968 : LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 : US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 : Uprising in South Yemen
1968 : prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 : US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 : Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?)
1970 : "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 : Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 : Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
1971 : CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
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 M‚dici resigns
1975 : Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1975 : Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1976 : Failed coup in Niger
1977 : "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
1977 : US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 : -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 : A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1979 : Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 : Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 : Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 : "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 : Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 : Actress 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
1984 : 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 : Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 : Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 : "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 : "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 : 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 : NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 : US 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's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 : "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 : Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 : NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 : Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
1991 : 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 : Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20¬'
1991 : Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 : UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 : Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 : 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 : Asteroid í 20m comes within 160-180,000 km of Earth
1994 : Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1998 : "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1999 : Pluto again becomes outermost planet

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