15 Mairch

The 15t o Mairch is the 74t day o the year (75t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 291 days ti come.

 Events 
44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator o the Roman Republic, is stabbed tae daith bi Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus an several ether Roman senators on the Ides o Mairch.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns tae Spain efter his first trip tae the Americaes.
1776 – Sooth Carolina becomes the first colony on the east coast o North Americae tae declare its unthirldom frae Great Breetain.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd state o the Unitit States.
1867 – Hungary gains autonomy, as pairt o the dual monarchy o Austrick-Hungary.
1892 – Liverpool F.C. is foondit.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II o Roushie abdicates.
1922 – Efter Egyp gains nominal unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick, Fuad I becomes Keeng o Egyp.
1952 – Cilaos, Réunion, breaks the record for 24-hour rainfall.
1985 – The period o militar govrenment in Brazil ends.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev  is electit as the first Preses o the Soviet Union.
2003 – Hu Jintao becomes Preses o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
2011 – Beginnin o the Sirian Ceevil War.
2013 – Xi Jinping becomes Preses o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
2019 – Christchurch mosque shuitins: A gunman cairies oot shuitin attacks on twa mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killin 50 fowk.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Bahamas, Guam an Uzbekistan record thair first COVID-19 cases.

 Births 
1638 – Shunzhi Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1661)
1754 – Archibald Menzies, Scots surgeon (d. 1842)
1767 – Andrew Jackson, 7nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1845)
1779 – William Lamb, 2nt Viscoont Melbourne, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1848)
1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st Preses o Liberie (d. 1876)
1820 – Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, Scots traiveller an sportsman (d. 1866)
1830 – Paul Heyse, German writer (d. 1914)
1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German pheesiologist (d. 1917)
1930 – Zhores Alferov, Belaroushie-born pheesicist (d. 2019)
1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Unitit States Supreme Coort Juistice (d. 2020)
1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
1942 – Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler
1943 – David Cronenberg, Canadian actor, director an screenwriter
1947 – Ry Cooder, American sangster an muisicker
1953 – Richard Bruton, Erse politeecian
1959 – Ben Okri, Nigerie novelist
1967 – Ian Ferguson, Scots fitbawer
1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress
1975 – will.i.am, American sangster, rapper an actor
1986 – Carlos Rivera, Mexican actor an sangster
1993 – Paul Pogba, French fitbawer

 Daiths 
44 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general an statesman (b. 100 BC)
1842 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian componer (b. 1760) 
1936 – John Scott Haldane, Scots pheesiologist (b. 1860)
1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, American author (b. 1890)
1962 – Arthur Compton, American pheesicist (d. 1892)
1972 – Jimmy Simpson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1908)
1978 – Bobby McKean, Scots fitbawer (b. 1952)
1983 – Rebecca West, Inglis writer (b. 1892)
2007 – Adam Robson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
2014 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, Inglis barrister, cookery writer an braidcaster (b. 1947)

 Halidays 
 15 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
St. Louise de Marillac
St. Matrona
St. Aristobulus
Bl. William Hart
St. Clement Maria Hofbauer
St. Leocrita
St. Mancius
St. Raymond o Fitero
St. Nicander
St. Menignus
St. Monaldus o Ancona
 Naitional Day o Hungary
 Birthday o Joseph Jenkins Roberts (Liberie)
 Constitution Day (Belaroushie)

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Category:Days o the year