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1382Mar 15Conservative “Popolo Grasso” regained power in Florence, Italy.
1672Mar 15England’s King Charles II enacted a 2nd Declaration of Indulgence.
1781Mar 15Gen. Nathanael Greene engaged British forces under Cornwallis at Guilford Court-House, North Carolina. Greene retreated after inflicting severe casualties on Cornwallis’ army.
1842Mar 15Maria Luigi Cherubini (81), Italian composer (Dies Irae), died.
1869Mar 15Cincinnati Red Stockings became the 1st pro baseball team.
1892Mar 15New York State unveiled the new automatic ballot voting machine.
1903Mar 15The British completed the conquest of Nigeria, 500,000 square miles are now controlled by the United Kingdom.
1905Mar 15Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg was born. He later attempted to assassinate Hitler.
1907Mar 15Finland became the 1st European country to give women the right to vote.
1913Mar 15President 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.
1922Mar 15Sultan Fuad I issued whereby he changed his title from Sultan of Egypt to King of Egypt.
1924Mar 15Sweden recognized the USSR
1930Mar 15The USS Nautilus, the 1st streamlined submarine of US Navy, was launched.
1937Mar 15The 1st state contraceptive clinic opened in Raleigh, NC.
1942Mar 15Alexander van Zemlinsky (70), Austrian-US composer (African Dance), died.
1945Mar 15Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman were winners in the 17th Academy Awards along with the film “Going my Way.”
1951Mar 15General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Indochina (Vietnam).
1955Mar 15The U.S. Air Force unveiled a self-guided missile.
1957Mar 15Burton Abbot was executed for the 1955 abduction and killing of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan.
1961Mar 15In 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.
1964Mar 15Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.
1968Mar 15The U.S. mint halted the practice of buying and selling gold.
1974Mar 15In 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.
1981Mar 15Fernando 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.
1987Mar 15Peggy 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.
1991Mar 15An indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles, charging four police officers with beating black motorist Rodney King.
1993Mar 15Searchers found the body of the sixth and last missing victim of the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1994Mar 15Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, defeated four Democratic primary challengers in his bid for re-election.
1997Mar 15President Clinton spent a second day at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, recuperating from surgery for a partially torn knee tendon.
1998Mar 15CBS’ “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.
1999Mar 15Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2000Mar 15Paleontologist 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.
2001Mar 15Ann Sothern (92), film and TV actress, died in Ketchum, Idaho. Her work included 64 movies and over 175 TV episodes.
2002Mar 15Disney opened its new $532.9 million movie-themed park adjacent to Disneyland Paris.
2003Mar 15Many thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in SF, Washington DC and around the world against plans for a war with Iraq.
2004Mar 15The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Prince, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne and George Harrison along with ZZ Top, Traffic and the Dells.
2005Mar 15The 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.
2006Mar 15The US FCC proposed a record fine of $3.6 million against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates in a crackdown on indecent television programming.
2007Mar 15In the US Senate Republicans easily turned back Democratic legislation requiring a troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin within 120 days.
2008Mar 15In NYC an apartment building on Manhattan’s East Side was crushed in a giant crane collapse that killed 7 people and injured 17.
2009Mar 15Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said America’s recession “probably” will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system.
2010Mar 15Honda 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.
2011Mar 15In 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.”
2012Mar 15In 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.
2013Mar 15SAC Capital agreed to pay the SEC a record $616 million to settle a long-standing probe into insider trading.
   
Source: Timelines of History  

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