WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/March 15
This is a list of selected March 15 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Julius Caesar
The Death of Julius Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini
Portrait of George Washington in military uniform
John McCloskey
- Ger Inf Russia 1941 HDSN9902655.JPEG
Two German infantrymen in Russia, 1941
Blank map of Maine
Talaat Pasha
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Hōnen Matsuri in Japan | essentially unreferenced stub |
| ; National Day in Hungary (1848) | inappropriate tone |
| 933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia. | refimprove section |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. | unreferenced section |
| 1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine was given its own U.S. statehood. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | needs more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77: refimprove |
| 1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. | unreferenced section |
| 1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | both: refimprove |
| 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. | unreferenced section |
| 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. | lots of CN tags |
| 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com. | refimprove section |
| 1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people. | multiple issues |
| 1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position. | refimprove |
| Paul Pogba (b. 1993) | expansion |
Notes
- FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27, so Liverpool FC should not appear in the same year
- Missouri Compromise appears on March 3, so Maine should not appear in the same year
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- 1147 – Portuguese troops under the leadership of Afonso I captured the Almoravid city of Santarém.
- 1783 – A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the supremacy of Congress.
- 1927 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Women's Boat Race (2015 edition pictured) held in Oxford, England.
- 1951 – The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government, marking the start of the Syrian Civil War.
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