1900<\/strong> – In Paris, Sarah Bernhardt starred in the premiere of Edmond Rostand’s “L’Aiglon.”<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – German Chancellor von Bulow declared that an agreement between Russia and China over Manchuria would violate the Anglo-German accord of October 1900.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – In Boston, MA, 10,000 freight handlers went back to work after a weeklong strike.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – The British conquest of Nigeria was completed. 500,000 square miles were now controlled by the U.K.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – Three hundred Russians were killed as the Japanese shelled Port Arthur in Korea.<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong> – In Finland, the woman won their first seats in the Finnish Parliament. They took their seats on May 23.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Italy proposed a European conference on the Balkans.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – Otto Kahn offered $500,000 for a family portrait by Dutch artist Frans Hals. Kahn had outbid J.P. Morgan for the work.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 troops, under General Pershing, over the border of Mexico to pursue bandit Pancho Villa. The mission failed.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated himself and his son. His brother Grand Duke succeeded as czar.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – The American Legion was founded in Paris.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Fuad I assumed the title of king of Egypt after the country gained nominal independence from Britain.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Henry Ford restored the $5 a day wage.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda banned four Berlin newspapers.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank to preserve blood for transfusion by refrigeration was established at the Cook County Hospital.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – German forces occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and part of Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Cassino, Italy, was destroyed by Allied bombing.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – British Premier Attlee offered India full independence after agreement on a constitution.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – Sir Laurence Olivier was on the cover of “LIFE” magazine for his starring role in Shakespeare\u2019s “Hamlet.”<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly four years after the end of World War II.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – General de Lattre demanded that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The Persian parliament voted to nationalize the oil industry.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – CBS television debuted its “Morning Show.”<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – The U.S. Air Force unveiled a self-guided missile.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – The musical “My Fair Lady” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Ten nations met in Geneva to discuss disarmament.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The first underwater park was established as Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – In Montreal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – The U.S. mint halted the practice of buying and selling gold.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The musical “Purlie” opened on Broadway in New York City.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – CBS television announced it was going to drop “The Ed Sullivan Show.”<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – The first episode of “Eight is Enough” was aired on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – Pope John Paul II published his first encyclical “Redemptor Hominis.” In the work, he warned of the growing gap between the rich and poor.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Nicaragua’s ruling junta proclaimed a month-long state of siege and suspended the nation’s constitution for one day. This came a day after anti-government rebels destroyed two bridges near the Honduran border.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – In Brazil, two decades of military rule came to an end with the installation of a civilian government.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to impound all fruit imported from Chile after two cyanide-tainted grapes were found in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs became the 14th Department in the President’s Cabinet.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – In Iraq, British journalist Farzad Bazoft was hanged for spying.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first executive president of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Soviet parliament ruled that Lithuania’s declaration of independence was invalid and that Soviet law was still in force in the Baltic republic.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Four Los Angeles police officers were indicted in the beating of Rodney King on March 3, 1991. (California)<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Yugoslav President Borisav Jovic resigned after about a week of anti-communist protests.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – U.S. President Clinton extended the moratorium on nuclear testing until September of 1995.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – The aviation firm Fokker NV collapsed.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – More than 15,000 ethnic Albanians marched in Yugoslavia to demand independence for Kosovo.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said U.S. President Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Libyan Abdel Basset 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.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning her five children on June 20, 2001.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Associated Press that the U.S. would stand by a 24-year pledge not to use nuclear arms against states that don’t have them.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – Clive Woodall’s novel “One for Sorrow: Two for Joy” was published. Two days later Woodall sold the film rights to Walt Disney Co. for $1 million. Disney movies, music, and books.<\/p>\n 2008 <\/strong>\u2013 Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of G\u00ebrdec, Albania, killing 26 people. To date, no other tragedy has caused more deaths in post-World War II Albania.<\/p>\n 2011 <\/strong>\u2013 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 51 people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>\u2013 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 15 March 1900 – In Paris, Sarah Bernhardt starred in the premiere of Edmond Rostand’s “L’Aiglon.” 1901 – German Chancellor von Bulow declared that an agreement between Russia and China over Manchuria would violate the Anglo-German accord of October 1900. 1902 – In Boston, MA, 10,000 freight handlers went back to work after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[669,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-3969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-15-march","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-121","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23456,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/23456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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