About March 15
March 15, 2025 is the 74th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 339 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.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
- 1820 –Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 1848 –A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1888 –Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1926 –The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1933 –Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
- 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).
- 1956 –My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 1961 –South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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.
- 1985 –The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- 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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