Top Historical Events That Happened on March 15

1892  1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC).   

1894  Slava Vorlova, composer.   

1897  1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden   

1900  Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer   

1901  Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th   

1901  Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)   

1902  Kitty Masters, actress   

1903  British conquest of northern Nigeria is complete   

1903  Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa   

1904  George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel).   

1905  Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler.   

1905  Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60.   

1906  Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd   

1906  Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81   

1907  Finland is inaugural European country to give women the right to vote   

1907  Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote   

1907  Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn).   

1908  1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole".   

1910  An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)   

1912  Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 claims   

1912  Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot.   

1913  In this year, Cleveland establishes inaugural small claims court.   

1913  inaugural Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)   

1913  1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson).   

1913  Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof).   

1915  Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea   

1915  Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea   

1915  David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)   

1916  General Pershing, 15000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months   

1916  Six days after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa killed seventeen Americans during a raid into U.S. territory, President Woodrow Wilson sends 6600 U.S. troops over the border to capture Villa dead or alive   

1916  University of Gent goes under Dutch control.   

1916  Gen Pershing, 15000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos   

1916  Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee).   

1917  Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate.   

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0938  Romanos ii: Byzantine emperor   

1275  Margaret plantagenet: English princess   

1455  Pietro accolti: Italian catholic cardinal   

1493  Anne pierre adrien duke of montmorency: Marshal of france   

1591  Alexandre de rhodes: French jesuit missionary   

1638  Shunzhi emperor of china: Shunzhi emperor of china   

1666  Georg baehr: German master builder (frauenkirche, dresden)   

1666  George bähr: German architect   

0044  Death of Julius caesar: Julius caesar (murdered) (b. 100 bc)   

0493  Death of Odiaker: German army leader/king of italy (476-93),   

0752  Zachary: Greek/italian pope (741-52),   

0963  Romanus ii: Byzantine emperor (959-63),   

1034  Mieszko ii: King of poland (1025-34),   

1145  Death of Pope lucius ii: Pope lucius ii   

1311  Death of Walter v of brienne: Duke of athens   

1575  Death of Annibale padovano: Italian composer (b. 1527)