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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 15
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Branko Radicevic; Serbian poet (first Serbian Uprising).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Harold L Ickes; social activist, New Deal politician.
- 90th: 1934 - US Information Service opens.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Chi Cheng in Taiwan; sprinter/80 metre hurdler (Olympics-Bronze-1968).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of David Costell in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; rocker (Gary Lewis and the Playboys - "This Diamond Ring").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jacques Doillon; director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Ralph MacDonald; rock percussionist (Graceland).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Sly Stone in Dallas, Texas, USA; rocker (Sly and the Family Stone - "Everyday People").
- 80th: 1944 - Allies launch another attack on Cassino. Over eight hours, 1000 tons of bombs are dropped, and 190,000 shells are fired on the town. By nightfall, two-thirds of the town is in Allied hands.
- 80th: 1944 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WWI), dies at age 86.
- 80th: 1944 - Otto Skorzeny and other Germans find hidden treasure of the Cathars in a cavern in La Penne mountain in France. The treasure is believed to originate with Solomon's Temple, with gold valued at US$60 billion.
- 70th: 1954 - CBS Morning Show premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Craig Wasson in Eugene, Oregon, USA; actor (Body Double, Four Friends, Men's Club).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Alison Johnson in Tustin, California, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Rockwell [Kennedy Gordy] in Detroit, Michigan, USA; rock vocalist (Somebody's Watching Me).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ron Hall; NFL tight end (Detroit Lions).
- 60th: 1964 - US President Lyndon Johnson asks for a War on Poverty.
- 60th: 1964 - Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at age 75.
- 60th: 1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Imad Baba in Humble, Texas, USA; soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns.
- 40th: 1984 - John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" is released (four years after his death).
- 40th: 1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution.
- 40th: 1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses and dies on stage.
- 40th: 1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields wins.
- 30th: 1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
- 30th: 1994 - Experts from American League certify Cleveland Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit.
- 30th: 1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at age 68.
- 30th: 1994 - U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
- 25th: 1999 - In Brussels, Belgium, the Santer Commission resigns over allegations of corruption.
- 20th: 2004 - The new Spanish Government announces that it will withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops in Iraq.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925).
- 15th: 2009 - In Cyprus, round 3 of the FIA World Rally Championship is won by Sébastien Loeb.
- 15th: 2009 - Alberta's Kevin Martin wins his fourth Canadian championship curling Brier title in Calgary, defeating Jeff Stoughton 10-4 in the final game.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Ron Silver, American actor (Speed-the-Plow Tony Award, Kissinger and Nixon, Reversal of Fortune), political activist, or esophageal cancer at age 62, in Manhattan, New York, USA.
- 5th: 2019 - 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand's history.
- 5th: 2019 - Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
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