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March 15th is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 291 days remaining until
the end of the calendar year.  March 15th is International Day Against Police Brutality.

In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

Births
1767
- Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President
1845 - Thomas Custer, two-time Medal of Honor recipient
1914 - Gil Elvgren, painter of illustration
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, Hall of Fame quarterback, punter
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1939 - Ted Kaufman, U.S. Senator (Delaware)
1946 - Bobby Bonds, professional baseball player
1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, fashion model
1975 - will.i.am, rapper, songwriter, actor
1975 - Eva Longoria Parker, actress (Desperate Housewives)

Deaths
2001
- Ann Sothern, actress (Maisie)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball commissioner
2009 - Ron Silver, actor, director, political activist

Events
1493
- After his initial trip to the Americas, explorer Christopher Columbus returns to Spain.
1776 - South Carolina sets up his own government and declares its independence from Great Britain , becoming the first
American colony to do so.
1781 - Battle of Guilford Courthouse, near modern-day Greensboro , North Carolina happens during the American
Revolutionary War where General Charles Cornwallis leads 1,900 British troops to victory over a larger American force
numbering 4,400.
1783 -George Washington gives a passionate speech in Newburgh, New York , where he appeals to his officers to not to
support the
Newburgh Conspiracy.   Washington’s request is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never occurs.
1820 - Maine is admitted, becoming the 23rd state in the United States.
1873 -The social fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa is founded at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst .
1892 - The first voting machines are used for elections in New York State.
1892 - Jesse W. Reno patents the escalator.
1906 - Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce form Rolls-Royce Limited.
1916 - 12,000 United States troops are sent over the U.S.-Mexico border by President Woodrow Wilson to locate and attack
Pancho Villa.
1919 - The American Legion is founded in Paris.
1944 - During the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II, Allied aircraft bomb and stage an assault on the German-held
monastery.
1956 - The Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady opens on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1965 -Responding to the civil rights struggle taking place at Selma , Alabama ,  President Lyndon B. Johnson tells U.S.
Congress "We shall overcome" while continuing his support for the Voting Rights Act.
1985 -Symbolics.com becomes first Internet domain name registered.
1989 - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 - Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying during the Gulf War.
2002 - Andrea Yates is sentenced to life in prison, later overturned on appeal, for the drowning deaths of her five children.
2004 -The discovery of 90377 Sedna is announced, becoming the furthest natural object in the Solar system observed to
this point.
Calendar
January
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29
March
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
May
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
July
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
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