{"id":19126,"date":"2020-03-15T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2020-03-14T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T11:16:34","slug":"history-of-15-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-15-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 15 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History of 15 March<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; In Iraq, British journalist Farzad Bazoft was hanged for spying.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Soviet parliament ruled that Lithuania&#8217;s declaration of independence was invalid and that Soviet law was still in force in the Baltic republic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; Four Los Angeles police officers were indicted in the beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991. (California)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; Yugoslav President Borisav Jovic resigned after about a week of anit-communist protests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0extended the moratorium on nuclear testing until September of 1995.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; The aviation firm Fokker NV collapsed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; More than 15,000 ethnic Albanians marched in Yugoslavia to demand independence for Kosovo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Libyan Abdel Baset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi began his life sentence in a Scottish jail for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; In the U.S., Burger King began selling a veggie burger. The event was billed as the first veggie burger to be sold nationally by a fast-food chain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; In\u00a0Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning her five children on June 20, 2001.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Associated Press that the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0would stand by a 24-year pledge not to use nuclear arms against states that don&#8217;t have them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004<\/strong> &#8211; Clive Woodall&#8217;s novel &#8220;One for Sorrow: Two for Joy&#8221; was published. Two days later Woodall sold the film rights to Walt Disney Co. for $1 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Treaty of Lisbon is signed by member states of the European Union.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0murder-suicide\u00a0in\u00a0Li\u00e8ge, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a\u00a0Christmas market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A high-speed train crashes in\u00a0Ankara, Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring 84.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese actress and model<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Koutaro Tanaka, Japanese actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dominik Werling, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013 Otylia J\u0119drzejczak, a Polish swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hanna-Maria Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4, Finnish swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Bumpus, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rickie Fowler, American golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Olly Lancashire, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0S\u00e9nah Mango, Togolese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aaron Telitz, American race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 15 March 1990 &#8211; In Iraq, British journalist Farzad Bazoft was hanged for spying. 1990 &#8211; Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union. 1990 &#8211; The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public. 1990 &#8211; The Soviet parliament ruled that Lithuania&#8217;s declaration of independence was invalid and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1088,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-19126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-15-march","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4Yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19158,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}