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

## Births

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

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