What are the important events that happened on March 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 15 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 2, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,507,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontapentagon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,102 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 15: This Day In History
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
March 15 Historical Events
- 351 –Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1783 –In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
- 1916 –President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
- 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.
- 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 first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- 1986 –Hotel New World Disaster a 1 star hotel collapses in Singapore’s Little India’s district killing 33 people
Who were born on March 15?
- 1864 –Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
- 1931 –Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan (d. 2011)
- 1933 –Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
- 1936 –David Andrews, Irish politician
- 1940 –Mel Phillips, American radio programmer
- 1957 –Park Overall, American actress
- 1975 –Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- 1977 –Brian Tee, American actor
- 1981 –Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
- 1986 –Adrianne Leon, American singer-songwriter and actress
Who died on March 15?
- 1962 –Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1972 –Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
- 1986 –Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (b. 1897)
- 1989 –Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- 1997 –Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
- 1998 –Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
- 2001 –Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2007 –Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
- 2009 –Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
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