About March 15
March 15, 2024 is the 75th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 320 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
March 15: More About This Day
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
What Happened On March 15
- 933 –After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1545 –First meeting of the Council of Trent.
- 1672 –Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
- 1848 –A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1916 –President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
- 1926 –The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1931 –SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 1933 –Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
- 1939 –Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- 1939 –World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- 1943 –World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
- 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).
- 1965 –President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 1985 –The end of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
- 1986 –Hotel New World Disaster a 1 star hotel collapses in Singapore’s Little India’s district killing 33 people
- 1990 –Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
- 2004 –French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
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