Page 5: Historical Events In March - 15

1916  On March - 15 six days after Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa killed seventeen Americans during a raid into U.S. territory, President Woodrow Wilson sends 6,600 U.S. troops over the border to capture Villa dead or alive   

1916  University of Gent goes under Dutch control on March - 15.   

1916  On March - 15 gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos   

1916  On March - 15 geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)   

1917  Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate on this day in history.   

1917  Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS] on March - 15.   

1918  Janet Leach, potter on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82   

1919  American Legion forms (Paris France) on this day in history.   

1919  American Legion founded on this day in history.   

1919  On March - 15 american Legion forms (Paris)   

1919  On March - 15 john Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)   

1921  On March - 15 the colony of Ruanda, East Africa, is ceded to Britain by Belgium.   

1922  On March - 15 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)   

1923  On this day in history lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke   

1926  On this day in history belgium's "black monday", franc falls   

1926  On March - 15 belgium's "black monday," franc falls   

1928  On March - 15 mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)   

1929  Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24 on this day in history.   

1930  On March - 15 the first streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched   

1930  On March - 15 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY   

1930  Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1933  NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination on March - 15.   

1933  On this day in history nAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination   

1934  On this day in history uS Information Service opens   

1935  George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs England at Kingston on March - 15.   

1935  George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston on March - 15.   

1937  On March - 15 the first blood bank is established (Chicago IL)   

1937  On this day in history the United States sets up its first central blood bank   

1937  1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL) on March - 15.   

1938  Saudi Arabia began producing oil, a natural resource that would transform a virtual dust bowl of a nation into one so wealthy that King Faisal's main problem was what to do with too much money on March - 15.   

1938  Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies on this day in history.   

1939  Germany occupies Czechoslovakia on March - 15.   

1939  Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence on this day in history.   

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0938  On March - 15 birth of romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)   

1275  Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318) was born on March - 15.   

1455  Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532) was born on this day in history.   

1493  Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France was born on March - 15.   

1591  Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660) was born on March - 15.   

1638  Shunzhi Emperor of China was born on March - 15.   

1666  On this day in history birth of georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)   

1666  George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738) was born on this day in history.   

0044  Death of Julius Caesar (murdered) (b. 100 BC) on this day in history.   

0493  On March - 15 odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies   

0752  Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22] on March - 15.   

0963  On this day in history romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25   

1034  Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies on March - 15.   

1145  Death of Pope Lucius II on March - 15.   

1311  Death of Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens on this day in history.   

1575  Death of Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527) on this day in history.