Today In History (March, 15)
By James Hughes
| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1382 | Mar 15 | Conservative “Popolo Grasso” regained power in Florence, Italy. |
| 1672 | Mar 15 | England’s King Charles II enacted a 2nd Declaration of Indulgence. |
| 1781 | Mar 15 | Gen. Nathanael Greene engaged British forces under Cornwallis at Guilford Court-House, North Carolina. Greene retreated after inflicting severe casualties on Cornwallis’ army. |
| 1842 | Mar 15 | Maria Luigi Cherubini (81), Italian composer (Dies Irae), died. |
| 1869 | Mar 15 | Cincinnati Red Stockings became the 1st pro baseball team. |
| 1892 | Mar 15 | New York State unveiled the new automatic ballot voting machine. |
| 1903 | Mar 15 | The British completed the conquest of Nigeria, 500,000 square miles are now controlled by the United Kingdom. |
| 1905 | Mar 15 | Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg was born. He later attempted to assassinate Hitler. |
| 1907 | Mar 15 | Finland became the 1st European country to give women the right to vote. |
| 1913 | Mar 15 | President Wilson met with reporters for what’s been described as the first presidential press conference. Some sources say Wilson’s first actual press conference was a week later. |
| 1922 | Mar 15 | Sultan Fuad I issued whereby he changed his title from Sultan of Egypt to King of Egypt. |
| 1924 | Mar 15 | Sweden recognized the USSR |
| 1930 | Mar 15 | The USS Nautilus, the 1st streamlined submarine of US Navy, was launched. |
| 1937 | Mar 15 | The 1st state contraceptive clinic opened in Raleigh, NC. |
| 1942 | Mar 15 | Alexander van Zemlinsky (70), Austrian-US composer (African Dance), died. |
| 1945 | Mar 15 | Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman were winners in the 17th Academy Awards along with the film “Going my Way.” |
| 1951 | Mar 15 | General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Indochina (Vietnam). |
| 1955 | Mar 15 | The U.S. Air Force unveiled a self-guided missile. |
| 1957 | Mar 15 | Burton Abbot was executed for the 1955 abduction and killing of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan. |
| 1961 | Mar 15 | In San Francisco a 12-ton statue of St. Francis, created by Benny Bufano, was removed from the front of St. Francis of Assisi Church at 610 Vallejo St. and taken to Oakland. |
| 1964 | Mar 15 | Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second. |
| 1968 | Mar 15 | The U.S. mint halted the practice of buying and selling gold. |
| 1974 | Mar 15 | In Brazil General Ernesto Geisel (1907-1996) became president and ruled for 5 years. He gradually ended political repression, lifted press censorship and allowed political exiles to return. Under his rule the foreign debt doubled to $43 billion. |
| 1981 | Mar 15 | Fernando Belmontes (19) killed Steacy McConnell (19) during a robbery in Victor, just east of Lodi, Ca. He hit her 15-20 times with an iron dumbbell. In 2006 the US Supreme Court reinstated his death sentence. |
| 1987 | Mar 15 | Peggy Say, the sister of Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent held hostage in Lebanon, said President Reagan was being “unjustly castigated” for his arms-for-hostages deal. |
| 1991 | Mar 15 | An indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles, charging four police officers with beating black motorist Rodney King. |
| 1993 | Mar 15 | Searchers found the body of the sixth and last missing victim of the World Trade Center bombing in New York. |
| 1994 | Mar 15 | Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, defeated four Democratic primary challengers in his bid for re-election. |
| 1997 | Mar 15 | President Clinton spent a second day at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, recuperating from surgery for a partially torn knee tendon. |
| 1998 | Mar 15 | CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president. |
| 1999 | Mar 15 | Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| 2000 | Mar 15 | Paleontologist Daniel Gebo announced the discovery of bones from 2 tiny primates, the size of a human thumb, that lived 42 million years ago in Shanghuang, China. |
| 2001 | Mar 15 | Ann Sothern (92), film and TV actress, died in Ketchum, Idaho. Her work included 64 movies and over 175 TV episodes. |
| 2002 | Mar 15 | Disney opened its new $532.9 million movie-themed park adjacent to Disneyland Paris. |
| 2003 | Mar 15 | Many thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in SF, Washington DC and around the world against plans for a war with Iraq. |
| 2004 | Mar 15 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Prince, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne and George Harrison along with ZZ Top, Traffic and the Dells. |
| 2005 | Mar 15 | The US charged 18 people with a scheme to smuggle shoulder-fired missiles and other military gear from former Soviet states. One person was still at large. |
| 2006 | Mar 15 | The US FCC proposed a record fine of $3.6 million against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates in a crackdown on indecent television programming. |
| 2007 | Mar 15 | In the US Senate Republicans easily turned back Democratic legislation requiring a troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin within 120 days. |
| 2008 | Mar 15 | In NYC an apartment building on Manhattan’s East Side was crushed in a giant crane collapse that killed 7 people and injured 17. |
| 2009 | Mar 15 | Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said America’s recession “probably” will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system. |
| 2010 | Mar 15 | Honda Motor Co. notified the NHTSA it will recall 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks, from the 2007-2008 model years, due to braking system problems. |
| 2011 | Mar 15 | In California Evan O’Dorney (17) of Danville beat 39 other finalists to win the Intel Science Talent Search. His mathematics entry was titled “Continued Fraction Convergents and Linear fractional transformations.” |
| 2012 | Mar 15 | In New Hampshire a federal judge declared a mistrial in the case of Beatrice Munyenyezi, a Rwanda woman who became a citizen in 2003. She was accused of lying to obtain her citizenship by denying her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. |
| 2013 | Mar 15 | SAC Capital agreed to pay the SEC a record $616 million to settle a long-standing probe into insider trading. |
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