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

1820: The state o Maine

• 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

Emil Adolf von Behring

Zhores Alferov

• 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)