Subj : This Day In History
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From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon Mar 15 2021 08:15 am

 Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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                              By Scott Labrecque
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Births:

03/15/1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
03/15/1754 Silvestro Palma, composer
03/15/1767 Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1828-37)
03/15/1779 William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
03/15/1790 Nicola Vaccai, composer
03/15/1801 Conrad J van Wooden, cocoa manufacturer
03/15/1808 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
03/15/1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
03/15/1810 Aernout Drost, literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
03/15/1811 Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
03/15/1824 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Swedish Uprising)
03/15/1830 Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
03/15/1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
03/15/1835 Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
03/15/1836 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
03/15/1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)

03/15/1851 Jozef Surzynski, composer
03/15/1852 Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
03/15/1855 L�tzen Wagenaar, Fries writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
03/15/1864 Johan Halvorsen, composer
03/15/1864 Leslie Stuart, composer
03/15/1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
03/15/1867 Will Rossiter, composer
03/15/1871 Betsy van den Arend, [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
03/15/1873 David Vaughan Thomas, composer
03/15/1874 Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
03/15/1879 Gerrit J Heering, Roman theologist (Fall of Christianity)
03/15/1884 Rudolf Piskacek, composer
03/15/1894 Slava Vorlova, composer
03/15/1900 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
03/15/1901 Colin McPhee, Montr�al Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)

03/15/1901 Theo Uden Marsman, orchestra leader
03/15/1902 Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela)
03/15/1904 George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
03/15/1905 Berthold Donate von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
03/15/1905 Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show

03/15/1907 Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
03/15/1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race

03/15/1912 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensban)
03/15/1913 Lex Goudsmit, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
03/15/1913 MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Gir

03/15/1915 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
03/15/1915 Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
03/15/1916 Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy At)
03/15/1916 Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
03/15/1918 Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
03/15/1919 John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)

03/15/1919 Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
03/15/1920 Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56

03/15/1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
03/15/1923 Italo Calvino, Italian writer (Split Viscount)
03/15/1923 Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
03/15/1924 Lockrem Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
03/15/1926 I T Valentine, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
03/15/1926 Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
03/15/1926 Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983-  )
03/15/1927 Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
03/15/1928 Nicolas Flagello, composer
03/15/1929 Tiezo Matsumura, composer
03/15/1932 Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3

03/15/1933 Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer
03/15/1933 Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist
03/15/1933 Ronald Roseman, composer
03/15/1933 Roy Clark, country singer (Hee Haw)
03/15/1934 Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
03/15/1935 Judd Hirsch, NYC, actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary Peopl

03/15/1936 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983-  )
03/15/1938 Dick Higgins, composer
03/15/1939 Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
03/15/1940 Phil Lesh, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
03/15/1941 Mike Love, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
03/15/1943 Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
03/15/1943 David Cronenberg, Canada, director (Shivers, Fly, Bread)
03/15/1943 Don Mitchell, US, actor (Ironside)
03/15/1944 Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
03/15/1944 David Costell, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
03/15/1944 Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
03/15/1945 J�rgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
03/15/1945 Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
03/15/1945 Tracy Smith, runner
03/15/1946 Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
03/15/1946 Howard Scott, US guitarist (War, Cisco Kid)
03/15/1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russia, cosmonaut
03/15/1947 Ry Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
03/15/1947 Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
03/15/1947 Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
03/15/1949 John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
03/15/1954 Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
03/15/1955 Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
03/15/1955 Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
03/15/1957 Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning

03/15/1958 Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
03/15/1959 Eliot Teltscher, Calif, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
03/15/1959 Harold Baines, Maryland, outfielder (White Sox, Rangers)
03/15/1960 Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
03/15/1961 Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
03/15/1961 John Melendez, jockey
03/15/1962 Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
03/15/1962 Terence Trent D'Arby, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
03/15/1963 Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
03/15/1963 Don Simington, jockey
03/15/1963 French Koenn, pop bassist (Lois Lane-Precious)
03/15/1963 Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap)
03/15/1968 Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
03/15/1971 Robbie Pratt, jockey
03/15/1986 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)


Deaths:

03/15/  44 -BC- Julius C�sar, Emperor of Rome, assassinated in Roman Senate
03/15/ 493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
03/15/ 752 Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
03/15/ 963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies
03/15/1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
03/15/1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
03/15/1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, diplomat/politician, dies at 75
03/15/1842 Luigi Cherubini, composer, dies at 81
03/15/1842 M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian director, dies
03/15/1880 John KJ de Young, historian, dies at 51
03/15/1883 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
03/15/1905 Arnold Kerdijk, liberal founder Social Weekly newspaper, dies at 60
03/15/1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norse author (Paa St J�rgen), dies at 58
03/15/1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
03/15/1918 Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
03/15/1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer, dies at 70
03/15/1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies
03/15/1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, SDAP resistance fighter, dies at 41
03/15/1954 Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
03/15/1962 Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
03/15/1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
03/15/1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
03/15/1966 Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 75
03/15/1969 Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80
03/15/1970 Arthur Adamov, French playwright, dies
03/15/1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Norse author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
03/15/1971 Jean-Pierre Monser�, Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
03/15/1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
03/15/1975 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
03/15/1975 Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies
03/15/1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
03/15/1983 Jos� Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
03/15/1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY) dies at 82
03/15/1990 Tom Harmon, former Heisman Trophy winner, dies at 70 in LA
03/15/1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies
03/15/1991 Eileen Sedgwick, dies
03/15/1992 Helen Deutsch, writer, dies
03/15/1992 Jack Washburn, actor, dies
03/15/1992 Vanessa Lee, dies
03/15/1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
03/15/1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies
03/15/1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68


Significant Events:

03/15/ 493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
03/15/ 752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
03/15/ 933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
03/15/1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
03/15/1382 Conservative 'Popolo Grasso' regain power in Florence Italy
03/15/1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
03/15/1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
03/15/1672 King Charles II removes Declaration of Indulgence
03/15/1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
03/15/1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
03/15/1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
03/15/1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (English beat US)
03/15/1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
03/15/1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
03/15/1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
03/15/1827 University of Toronto is chartered
03/15/1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
03/15/1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
03/15/1863 R Luther discovers asteroid #78 Diana
03/15/1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
03/15/1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
03/15/1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
03/15/1872 R Luther discovers asteroid #118 Peitho
03/15/1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
03/15/1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
03/15/1889 6 US & German warships fight in harbor at Apia Samoa, 200 die
03/15/1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
03/15/1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #400 Ducrosa
03/15/1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
03/15/1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
03/15/1906 Britten Rolls & Royce Johnson found Rolls Royce Ltd
03/15/1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
03/15/1912 Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
03/15/1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
03/15/1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
03/15/1915 Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
03/15/1916 Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
03/15/1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
03/15/1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (3/3 OS)
03/15/1919 American Legion forms
03/15/1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
03/15/1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
03/15/1926 Belgium's 'black monday', franc falls
03/15/1928 Mussolini modifies Italian electoral system
03/15/1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
03/15/1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
03/15/1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
03/15/1934 US Information Service opens
03/15/1937 1st blood bank established, Chicago, Ill
03/15/1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens, Raleigh, NC
03/15/1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia indepen

03/15/1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #3380
03/15/1940 G�ring ays 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
03/15/1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
03/15/1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
03/15/1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
03/15/1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
03/15/1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/15/1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

03/15/1950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1616 Filipoff
03/15/1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official 'rainmaker'
03/15/1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
03/15/1952 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #1622 Chacornac
03/15/1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La R�union, Indian Ocean
03/15/1953 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #3156
03/15/1953 West Germany loses in soccer to The Netherlands, 2-1
03/15/1954 'CBS Morning Show' premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
03/15/1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasti

03/15/1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
03/15/1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1956 'My Fair Lady' opens on Broadway (NYC)
03/15/1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ

03/15/1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
03/15/1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
03/15/1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
03/15/1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
03/15/1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
03/15/1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
03/15/1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jum

03/15/1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
03/15/1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4000 pts in an NBA season
03/15/1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
03/15/1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
03/15/1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
03/15/1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
03/15/1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
03/15/1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
03/15/1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
03/15/1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Civil Rights Act

03/15/1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
03/15/1968 Bob Beamon, sets long jump record of 27' 2 3/4'
03/15/1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
03/15/1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
03/15/1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
03/15/1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?)
03/15/1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
03/15/1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
03/15/1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
03/15/1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
03/15/1974 Civil rights activist president Garastazu M�dici resigns
03/15/1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
03/15/1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
03/15/1976 Failed coup in Niger
03/15/1977 US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
03/15/1978 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
03/15/1978 Israel invades Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
03/15/1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for the Radio Shack's TRS-80
03/15/1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
03/15/1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
03/15/1982 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3571
03/15/1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
03/15/1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
03/15/1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
03/15/1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
03/15/1986 Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
03/15/1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
03/15/1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
03/15/1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
03/15/1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
03/15/1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Civil rights activist
03/15/1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
03/15/1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20�'
03/15/1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
03/15/1994 Asteroid � 20m comes within 160-180,000 km of Earth
03/15/1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet

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