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15 Mar 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.
15 Mar 1360
French attack English south coast raiding Winchelsea
15 Mar 1382
Conservative Popolo Grasso regain power in Florence Italy
15 Mar 1391
Anti-Semite monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
15 Mar 1560
Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
15 Mar 1729
Sister St Stanislas Hachard 1st American nun takes her vows in New Orleans
15 Mar 1781
British and American forces clash during the Battle of Guilford Court House North Carolina. British suffer heavy losses surrendering to George Washington in October
15 Mar 1812
1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
15 Mar 1848
A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
15 Mar 1855
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
15 Mar 1862
General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin Tennessee
15 Mar 1864
Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria Lousiana
15 Mar 1867
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
15 Mar 1869
Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st professional baseball team
15 Mar 1877
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket Australia v England at the MCG Melbourne Australia
15 Mar 1885
1st performance of Caesar Francks Lesson Djinns
15 Mar 1887
1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
15 Mar 1889
6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour Samoa 200 die
15 Mar 1892
1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
15 Mar 1892
New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
15 Mar 1897
1st indoor fly casting tournament opens at Madison Square Garden
15 Mar 1901
Horse racing is banned in San Francisco last race March 16th
15 Mar 1906
Britons Rolls Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
15 Mar 1907
Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
15 Mar 1908
1st performance of Maurice Ravels Rapsodie Espagnole
15 Mar 1916
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
15 Mar 1916
General Pershing and 15000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico
15 Mar 1922
1st southern radio station begins (WSB Atlanta Georgia)
15 Mar 1922
Sultan Faud crowned King of Egypt England recognizes Egypt
15 Mar 1922
France which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany now accepts raw materials as payment
15 Mar 1930
1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington NY
15 Mar 1930
1st streamlined submarine of US navy USS Nautilus launched
15 Mar 1933
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
15 Mar 1935
George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
15 Mar 1937
First American blood blank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago
15 Mar 1937
1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
15 Mar 1944
Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
15 Mar 1945
Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
15 Mar 1945
Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is 1)
15 Mar 1945
Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
15 Mar 1947
John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
15 Mar 1948
WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1949
WICU TV channel 12 in Erie PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1949
WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1949
Crickets master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queens Hall Parliament House Melbourne
15 Mar 1950
Gian Carlo Menottis opera Consul opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
15 Mar 1950
NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official rainmaker
15 Mar 1951
UN forces recapture Seoul the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War
15 Mar 1952
2 in the Aisle closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
15 Mar 1952
Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins 187 cm at La Reunion Indian Ocean
15 Mar 1953
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands 2-1
15 Mar 1954
WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1955
WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1956
My Fair Lady opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2715 performances
15 Mar 1956
Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto to become NWA wrestling champion
15 Mar 1957
Great Britain becomes the third nation to explode a nuclear bomb
15 Mar 1958
Body Beautiful musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
15 Mar 1958
KULR TV channel 8 in Billings MT (NBCABCCBS) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1958
Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
15 Mar 1958
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test in Ground Zero Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan (of 36 total for )
15 Mar 1959
Richard Rogers No Strings opens on Broadway
15 Mar 1959
Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
15 Mar 1959
WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1960
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
15 Mar 1960
National Observatory at Kitt Peak Arizona dedicated
15 Mar 1961
South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
15 Mar 1962
Richard Rodgers musical No Strings opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
15 Mar 1962
Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter
15 Mar 1962
Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
15 Mar 1962
KATU TV channel 2 in Portland OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1963
WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1965
WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Mar 1966
Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
15 Mar 1967
Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves to Brunssum
15 Mar 1967
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
15 Mar 1967
WSJK TV channel 2 in SneedvilleKnoxville TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
15 Mar 1968
Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (272-34)
15 Mar 1968
Diocese of Rome announces that it deplored the concept but wouldnt prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
15 Mar 1969
Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
15 Mar 1970
Gary Geld & Peter Udells Purlie opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
15 Mar 1971
Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET the forerunner of the Internet
15 Mar 1972
Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
15 Mar 1972
NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
15 Mar 1972
Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast an RUC officer iskilled in an IRA attack in Coalisland County Tyrone
15 Mar 1974
Brazilian president Garastazu Mdici resigns
15 Mar 1975
Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail Colorado
15 Mar 1975
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
15 Mar 1975
Thats the Way of the World 6th studio album by Earth Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year )
15 Mar 1977
US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions
15 Mar 1978
-21] operation Litani Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
15 Mar 1978
As trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & 390000
15 Mar 1979
Apparat releases Newdos 2.1 for Radio Shacks TRS-80
15 Mar 1979
Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
15 Mar 1981
Broadway Follies openscloses at Nederlander Theater NYC
15 Mar 1981
Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
15 Mar 1982
Actress Theresa Saladana stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
15 Mar 1982
KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
15 Mar 1982
Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
15 Mar 1989
US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
15 Mar 1989
NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomins 1 uniform
15 Mar 1983
Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
15 Mar 1985
The first Internet domain name symbolics.com is registered
15 Mar 1986
Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
15 Mar 1987
Starlight Express opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
15 Mar 1987
Sweet Charity closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
15 Mar 1987
Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
15 Mar 1987
NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coneys last Test Cricket
15 Mar 1988
Eugene Marino of Atlanta appointed 1st African American archbishop
15 Mar 1988
NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
15 Mar 1988
NFLs St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
15 Mar 1989
Les Miserables opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
15 Mar 1990
Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
15 Mar 1991
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 34)
15 Mar 1991
Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
15 Mar 1992
Brandie Burton wins LPGA PingWelchs Golf Championship
15 Mar 1992
UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
15 Mar 1992
39th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 1 Duke beats 20 North Carolina 94-74
15 Mar 1992
33rd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Alabama 80-54
15 Mar 1992
13th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Syracuse beats Georgetown 56-54
15 Mar 1993
Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe his 2nd consecutive Test 200
15 Mar 1994
Experts from AL certify Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
15 Mar 1997
Pitts Penguins Joe Mullen is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
15 Mar 1998
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
15 Mar 2001
The worlds largest oil rig located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras suffers three explosions
15 Mar 2003
24th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Pittsburgh beats Connecticut 74-56
15 Mar 2004
Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
15 Mar 2006
18th Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne Australia
15 Mar 2008
29th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Pittsburgh beats Georgetown 74-65
15 Mar 2008
Wales beats France 29-12 at Millennium Stadium Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
15 Mar 2009
56th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 9 Duke beats 22 Florida State 79-69
15 Mar 2009
50th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Mississippi State beats Tennessee 64-61
15 Mar 1958
England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield Edinburgh Englands 16th FN title
15 Mar 1959
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls
15 Mar 1975
Wales trounce Ireland 32-4 at the National Stadium Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship
15 Mar 1977
TV comedy Threes Company starring Jack Ritter Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
15 Mar 1980
England beats Scotland 30-18 at Murrayfield Edinburgh to claim its 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown
15 Mar 1986
Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
15 Mar 1987
Starlight Express opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
15 Mar 1997
France beats Scotland 47-20 at Parc des Princes Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
15 Mar 1526
French Dauphin Francis and his brother Henry exchanged as hostages for their father Francis I beginning four years of captivity in Spain under Treaty of Madrid
15 Mar 1864
Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria Louisiana
15 Mar 1935
Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston Jamaica with a patient unbeaten 270
15 Mar 1972
Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast an RUC officer is also killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland County Tyrone
15 Mar 1994
Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
15 Mar 1529
Second Diet of Speyer convenes condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luthers teachings) official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term Protestantism
15 Mar 1877
Crickets inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
15 Mar 1877
Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne retires hurt on 165 the following day
15 Mar 1906
Britons Henry Rolls Charles Royce and Claude Johnson formalize their existing partnership as Rolls Royce Ltd
15 Mar 1937
First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago Illinois
15 Mar 1937
1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh North Carolina
15 Mar 1950
Gian Carlo Menottis Pulitzer Prize winning opera The Consul opens at Barrymore Theater NYC runs for 269 performances
15 Mar 1967
Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum Netherlands
15 Mar 1967
WSJK TV channel 2 in SneedvilleKnoxville Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast
15 Mar 1977
TV comedy Threes Company starring John Ritter Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
15 Mar 1993
In a landmark case Mohamed Tabet police commissioner of Casablanca is convicted of sexually abusing over 1500 women and sentenced to death
15 Mar 1869
With 10 salaried players Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseballs first professional team
15 Mar 1945
As a symbol of wartime baseball Bert Shepard (one-legged WWII veteran) begins a successful tryout as a pitcher for the Washington Senators
15 Mar 1960
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve also known as John D. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park established as 1st underwater park off the coast of Florida
15 Mar 1966
Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles California
15 Mar 1770
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (14) completes his String Quartet No. 1 (K. 80) in its original three-movement form on 15 March while touring in Lodi Lombardy Duchy of Milan
15 Mar 1892
1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier Coney Island New York City [1]
15 Mar 1970
Gary Geld and Peter Udells musical Purlie based on Ossie Davis Purlie Victorious opens at the Broadway Theater NYC runs for 689 performances
15 Mar 1977
TV comedy Threes Company starring John Ritter Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC in US
15 Mar 1982
Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lankas first Test Cricket century (157) in 2nd Test v Pakistan in Faisalabad
15 Mar 1987
Revival of Neil Simon Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields musical Sweet Charity starring Debbie Allen and Bebe Neuwirth closes at the Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances and 4 Tony Award wins
15 Mar 1024
Great Al-Andalus earthquake strikes the Umayyad Caliphate around Crdoba (modern southern Spain)
15 Mar 1311
Battle of Halmyros Catalan Company defeats the Frankish Duchy of Athens and its vassals led by Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens a Crusader state in Greece
15 Mar 1869
Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseballs first professional team with ten salaried players
15 Mar 1915
Carl Laemmle opens film studio Universal Pictures Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley Los Angeles [1]
15 Mar 1945
Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is 1)
15 Mar 1950
NYC hires Dr Wallace E. Howell as its official rainmaker to help end a crippling water shortage for the princely sum of 100 a day [1]
15 Mar 1962
Five research groups announce the discovery of antimatter
15 Mar 1985
First internet domain name symbolics.com is registered
15 Mar 2013
16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala Mexico
15 Mar 2013
24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town South Africa
15 Mar 2016
Googles DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
15 Mar 2017
Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film Beauty and the Beast for Malaysian censors instead pulls film from Malaysia
15 Mar 2018
More than 12000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta Syria after town bombarded
15 Mar 2018
Pedestrian bridge in Miami Florida collapses onto 8-lane highway 5 days after it was built killing 6
15 Mar 2018
Slovakias prime minister Robert Fico resigns amid crisis after the murder of a journalist Jan Kuciak investigating mafia connections
15 Mar 2018
Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy
15 Mar 2019
Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch New Zealand
15 Mar 2019
The Vessel a honeycomb viewing structure designed by Thomas Heatherwick opens at Hudson Yards development New York City
15 Mar 2020
European countries impose restrictions on gatherings and borders as COVID-19 deaths rates rise dramatically - Italy 1809 Spain 288 France 120
15 Mar 2020
US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic
15 Mar 2021
Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region southwest Niger government declares three days of mourning
15 Mar 2021
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine halted in Germany France and Italy joining some other countries despite little evidence of unusual blood clotting
15 Mar 2021
Deb Haaland confirmed as US Secretary of the Interior by the Senate 1st Native American to lead a cabinet agency
15 Mar 1892
First escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno is first used at Old Iron Pier Coney Island New York City [1]
15 Mar 1907
Finland is the first European country to give women the right to vote
15 Mar 1926
Six-mile car ferry service route opens between Portsmouth England and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight
15 Mar 1965
TGI Fridays first restaurant opens in New York City
15 Mar 1989
NHL New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomins 1 uniform
15 Mar 2021
Largest sandstorm in northern China in a decade engulfs Beijing turning air pollution levels hazardous
15 Mar 2021
Mass March 4 Justice rallies held across Australia to protest against violence and discrimination towards women
15 Mar 2021
Vatican issues judgement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions that God does not and cannot bless sin
15 Mar 2022
Architectures Pritzker Prize awarded to Francis Kr from Burkina Faso [1]
15 Mar 2022
Hong Kong amid its worst COVID-19 outbreak records over 4000 deaths in a few months largely due to low vaccination as Omicron hits forcing it to abandon its covid-zero policy
15 Mar 2023
Another atmospheric river creates a storm across California bringing widespread flooding and power outages with Monterey County issuing a 25 mile evacuation order [1]
15 Mar 2024
First ship arrives in Gaza to deliver aid from Cyprus amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis [1]
15 Mar 2025
Serbias largest-ever rally held in Belgrade with 325000 protesting against the government fueled by the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad railway station [1]
15 Mar 2025
US launches airstrikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen killing at least 53 people after the militia group said they would resume attacks on Israeli shipping [1]
15 Mar 2025
WPL Cricket Final Brabourne Stadium Mumbai Mumbai Indians claim 2nd title with 8 run win over Delhi Capitals Player of the match Harmanpreet Kaur (MI) 66 (44)