15 March: On This Day In History | What Special Day Is Today?

- 44 BCE – Roman dictator Julius Caesar was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated this day, the Ides of March, by a group of nobles, among whom were Cassius and Brutus.
- 1781 – American revolutionaries won a strategic victory over the British at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina.
- 1916 – US Soldiers sent into Mexico – President Woodrow Wilson sent thousands of American soldiers into Mexico on this day hoping to capture Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary.
- 1917 – Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia was forced to abdicate.
- 1981 – The 147 passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways Boeing 720 aircraft held hostage for nearly two weeks were released in Syria.

Art and Movies

- 1956 – The musical “My Fair Lady” opened on Broadway.
- 1964 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married for the first time.

Politics

- 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first and only executive president of the Soviet Union.

Economy

- 2012 – Libya reopened its stock exchange for the first time since the fall of the Gaddafi regime, after much internal conflict after a prolonged battle between the regime and rebels.

Environment

- 2019 – More than 1.5 million students participated in climate change protests around the world as part of Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.

Birth Anniversaries (15 March)

- 1767 – Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States from March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837.
- 1779 – Lord Melbourne, British prime minister from July 16 to November 14, 1834, and from April 18, 1835, to August 30, 1841.
- 1813 – John Snow, English physician known for his seminal studies of cholera and widely viewed as the father of contemporary epidemiology.
- 1932 – Alan Bean, American astronaut and lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 mission (November 14–22, 1969), during which two long walks totaling nearly eight hours were made on the Moon’s surface.
- 1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Death Anniversaries (15 March)

- c. 433 – Odoacer, first barbarian king of Italy. The date on which he assumed power, 476, is traditionally considered the end of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1883 – Rebecca West, British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–46).
- 1898 – Henry Bessemer, inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter.
- 1997 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born French painter of geometric abstractions who became one of the leading figures of the Op art movement.

What Special Day is Today: 15 March

- World Consumer Rights Day
- International Day Against Police Brutality

Conclusion

We hope this article was fascinating and you found out what special day is today. This day has been a mix of so many interesting events and people from different fields.

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