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What happened in history on this day: March 15?
On March 15 in ...
- 1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses).
- 1812 - First Russian settlement in California, Russian River.
- 1820 - Maine is admitted as 23rd state of the USA.
- 1848 - The Californian newspaper of San Francisco reports the claim of discovery of gold at Sutter's mill.
- 1848 - The California Star newspaper calls the report of discovery of gold at Sutter's mill a sham, "to guzzle the gullible".
- 1855 - Louisiana establishes first health board to regulate quarantine.
- 1862 - General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee.
- 1864 - Red River Campaign - USA forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1867 - Michigan becomes first state to tax property to support a university.
- 1875 - First US cardinal (John McCloskey) is invested.
- 1881 - Emory Upton, Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at age 42.
- 1887 - Michigan appoints first salaried game and fish warden in US (William Alden Smith).
- 1892 - First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York City, New York), for the Reno Inclined Elevator.
- 1892 - New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine).
- 1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, California, last race is held March 16th.
- 1913 - First US Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson).
- 1917 - Raymond T. Baker becomes director of the Bureau of the Mint.
- 1919 - American Legion forms (in Paris, France).
- 1930 - First seaplane glider flown, at Port Washington, New York.
- 1930 - First streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched.
- 1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination.
- 1934 - US Information Service opens.
- 1937 - First blood bank is established (Chicago, Illinois).
- 1937 - First state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh, North Carolina).
- 1941 - Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151.
- 1945 - 17th Academy Awards: Going my Way, Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win.
- 1948 - Sixteen nations plus the American, British, and French zones of Germany draft a convention for economic cooperation.
- 1950 - New York City hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker".
- 1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile.
- 1956 - My Fair Lady opens at Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City for 2,715 performances.
- 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (first underwater park).
- 1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated.
- 1964 - US President Lyndon Johnson asks for a War on Poverty.
- 1965 - US President Lyndon Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting rights for all.
- 1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California.
- 1968 - The Bureau of the Mint halts buying and selling gold.
- 1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns.
- 1972 - Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama.
- 1972 - NASA selects three-part configuration for Space Shuttle.
- 1973 - In San Juan Capistrano, California, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite.
- 1975 - Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado (Ted Bundy victim).
- 1977 - US House of Representatives begin 90-day test of televising its sessions.
- 1977 - Chevrolet general manager Robert Lund drives the 500,000th Corvette, a white Stingray T-Top, off the assembly line in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- 1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields wins.
- 1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby.
- 1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed.
- 1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons.
- 1991 - Four Los Angeles police officers are charged with beating Rodney King.
- 1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
- 1994 - U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
- 2009 - NASA launches space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 2018 - Toys "R" Us announces it will close and sell all of its 800+ stores in the USA.
- 2022 - US astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks the US single spaceflight record of 340 days in space.
Births on March 15
- 1907 - Birth of Paul Maxey in Wheaton, Illinois, USA; actor (Matt - Lassie, Mayor - People's Choice).
- 1912 - Birth of Sam [Lightnin'] Hopkins in Centerville, Texas, USA; blues stylist (Ball of Twine).
- 1913 - Birth of MacDonald Carey in Sioux City, Iowa, USA; actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl).
- 1915 - Birth of Richard Ward in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Beacon Hill).
- 1916 - Birth of Henry Haag James AKA Harry James in Albany Georgia, USA; bandleader, trumpeter ("You Made Me Love You").
- 1919 - Birth of Lawrence Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Abduction, Dillinger).
- 1923 - Birth of Laurence A Tisch in New York City, New York, USA; CEO (Loews Corp).
- 1927 - Birth of Carl Smith in Maynardville, Tennessee, USA: country singer (Grand Ole Opry).
- 1927 - Birth of Jack Lindquist in Chicago, Illinois, USA; child actor (Our Gang), advertising manager for Disneyland, park president, originated many concepts and expansions, retired 1993, named Disney Legend 1994.
- 1932 - Birth of Alan Lavern Bean in Wheeler, Texas, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3).
- 1935 - Birth of Judd Hirsch in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Alex - Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People).
- 1940 - Birth of Phil Lesh [Chapman] in Berkeley, California, USA; rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead).
- 1941 - Birth of Mike Love in Los Angeles, California, USA; rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys - "In My Room", "Surfin' USA").
- 1943 - Birth of Brenda Scott in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actress (Midge - Road West).
- 1944 - Birth of David Costell in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; rocker (Gary Lewis and the Playboys - "This Diamond Ring").
- 1944 - Birth of Sly Stone in Dallas, Texas, USA; rocker (Sly and the Family Stone - "Everyday People").
- 1945 - Birth of Mark J Green in Brooklyn, New York, USA; lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System).
- 1946 - Birth of Howard Scott in San Pedro, California, USA; rock guitarist/vocalist ("War", "Cisco Kid").
- 1947 - Birth of Ry[land] Cooder in Los Angeles, California, USA; blues guitarist (Crossroads).
- 1954 - Birth of Craig Wasson in Eugene, Oregon, USA; actor (Body Double, Four Friends, Men's Club).
- 1955 - Birth of Dee Snider in Massapequa, New York, USA; rocker (Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It").
- 1955 - Birth of Marcia McCabe in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Alicia Grande - One Life to Live).
- 1957 - Birth of Park Overall in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; actress (Laverne - Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning).
- 1959 - Birth of Eliot Teltscher in California, USA; tennis player (US Davis Cup team).
- 1959 - Birth of Harold Baines in Easton, Maryland, USA; outfielder (Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers).
- 1962 - Birth of Jimmy Baio in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Billy Tate - Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps).
- 1962 - Birth of Terrence Trent D'Arby in New York City, New York, USA; rock vocalist (Wishing Well).
- 1963 - Birth of Bret Michaels in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; guitarist (Poison - "Talk Dirty to Me").
- 1963 - Birth of Jimmy Baio in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Billy Tate - Soap).
- 1964 - Birth of Alison Johnson in Tustin, California, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993).
- 1964 - Birth of Rockwell [Kennedy Gordy] in Detroit, Michigan, USA; rock vocalist (Somebody's Watching Me).
- 1965 - Birth of Marianne Morris in Middletown, Ohio, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-third).
- 1966 - Birth of Karen Weiss in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th).
- 1968 - Birth of John Tardy; US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot).
- 1972 - Birth of Casey Cristin Mizell; Miss South Carolina-USA (1997).
- 1972 - Birth of Steve Danielson in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; field hockey defender (Olympics-1996).
- 1974 - Birth of Imad Baba in Humble, Texas, USA; soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1980 - Birth of Deidra Graham in Salt Lake City, Utah, gymnast (alternate-Olympics-1996).
- 1989 - Birth of Caitlin Wachs, American actress (Chloe Waters - Profiler).
Deaths on March 15
- 1881 - Emory Upton, Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at age 42.
- 1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian/US composer (African Dance), dies at age 70.
- 1983 - José Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at age 80.
- 1987 - Sterling W Cole, American politician (Representative-Republican-New York), dies at age 82.
- 1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies in Los Angeles at age 70.
- 1998 - Death of Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (born 1903).
- 2006 - Death of George Mackey, American mathematician (born 1916).
- 2007 - Death of Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball Commissioner (born 1926).
- 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.
- 2022 - Death of Eugene Parker at age 94; physicist (proposed existence of solar wind, namesake of NASA Parker Solar Probe).
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