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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/January" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January">January</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/February" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February">February</a> – March – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/April" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April">April</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/May" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May">May</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/June" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June">June</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/July" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July">July</a> – <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/February" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February"><<</a></td> <td colspan="5" style="text-align: center;">Selected anniversaries for March</td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/April" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April">>></a></td> </tr> <tr class="navbox-title" style="border: none; background-color:#fff3f3;"> <td width="14%">Su</td> <td width="14%">Mo</td> <td width="14%">Tu</td> <td width="14%">We</td> <td width="14%">Th</td> <td width="14%">Fr</td> <td width="14%">Sa</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_1" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 1">1</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_2" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 2">2</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_3" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 3">3</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_4" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4">4</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_5" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5">5</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_6" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6">6</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_7" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 7">7</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_8" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8">8</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_9" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9">9</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_10" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10">10</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_11" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11">11</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_12" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12">12</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_13" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13">13</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_14" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14">14</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_15" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15">15</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_16" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 16">16</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_17" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 17">17</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_18" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18">18</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_19" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 19">19</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_20" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 20">20</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_21" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 21">21</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_22" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 22">22</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_23" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 23">23</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_24" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 24">24</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_25" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 25">25</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_26" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26">26</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_27" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 27">27</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_28" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 28">28</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_29" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29">29</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_30" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30">30</a></td> <td><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_31" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 31">31</a></td> <td colspan="4"> </td> </tr> <tr class="navbox-title" style="background-color:#fff3f3;"> <td colspan="7">An archive of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">historical anniversaries</a> that appeared on the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> 2015 day arrangement</td> </tr> </table> </div> <hr/> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Bosnia_and_Herzegovina)" title="Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)" class="mw-redirect">Independence Day</a> in Bosnia and Herzegovina (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992" title="1992">1992</a>); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adwa" title="Battle of Adwa">Victory at Adwa Day</a> in Ethiopia (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896" title="1896">1896</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg" class="image" title="Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro"><img alt="Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg/100px-Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg" width="100" height="82" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg/150px-Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg/200px-Corcovado_statue01_2005-03-14.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="784"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1565" title="1565">1565</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)" title="Christ the Redeemer (statue)">Christ the Redeemer</a> statue pictured) was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1633" title="1633">1633</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain" title="Samuel de Champlain">Samuel de Champlain</a> reclaimed his role as commander of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a> on behalf of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu" title="Cardinal Richelieu">Cardinal Richelieu</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872" title="1872">1872</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park" title="Yellowstone National Park">Yellowstone National Park</a>, located primarily in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>, the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national park</a> in the world, was established.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a> – In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs" title="Klaus Fuchs">Klaus Fuchs</a> was convicted of violating the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act" title="Official Secrets Act">Official Secrets Act</a> for supplying information from the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a> to the Soviet Union.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips" title="Philips">Philips</a> publicly demonstrated a prototype of an <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">optical digital audio disc</a> at a press conference in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eindhoven" title="Eindhoven">Eindhoven</a>, Netherlands.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith" title="Bahá'í Faith">Bahá'í Faith</a>); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski_Day" title="Casimir Pulaski Day">Casimir Pulaski Day</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> (2015) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OptischerTelegraf.jpg" class="image" title="Replica of one Claude Chappe's semaphore towers"><img alt="Replica of one Claude Chappe's semaphore towers" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/OptischerTelegraf.jpg/75px-OptischerTelegraf.jpg" width="75" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/OptischerTelegraf.jpg/112px-OptischerTelegraf.jpg 1.5x, 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first demonstrated the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line" title="Semaphore line">semaphore line</a>, a signalling system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers (replica pictured) with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Workers_Organizing_Committee" title="Steel Workers Organizing Committee">Steel Workers Organizing Committee</a>, precursor to the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Steelworkers" title="United Steelworkers">United Steel Workers of America</a>, made a dramatic breakthrough when it signed a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining" title="Collective bargaining">collective bargaining</a> agreement with <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel" title="U.S. Steel">U.S. Steel</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965" title="1965">1965</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">American</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Air_Force" title="Vietnam Air Force">South Vietnamese</a> air forces began <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder" title="Operation Rolling Thunder">Operation Rolling Thunder</a>, a sustained bombing campaign against <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> that eventually became the most intense air/ground battle waged during the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> period.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978" title="1978">1978</a> – Aboard the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program" title="Soviet space program">Soviet spacecraft</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28" title="Soyuz 28">Soyuz 28</a>, Czech <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Remek" title="Vladimír Remek">Vladimír Remek</a> became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space" title="Outer space">space</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_2" 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<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri" title="Hinamatsuri">Hinamatsuri</a> in Japan <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg" class="image" title="Alexander II of Russia"><img alt="Alexander II of Russia" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg/79px-Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg" width="79" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg/119px-Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg/158px-Alexander_II_of_Russia_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1804" data-file-height="2276"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1284" title="1284">1284</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Rhuddlan" title="Statute of Rhuddlan">Statute of Rhuddlan</a> incorporated the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales" title="Principality of Wales">Principality of Wales</a> into England.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861" title="Emancipation reform of 1861">Emancipation Manifesto</a> of Tsar <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia" title="Alexander II of Russia">Alexander II</a> (pictured) was proclaimed, abolishing <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia" title="Serfdom in Russia">serfdom in Imperial Russia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875" title="1875">1875</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_indoor_hockey_game" title="First indoor hockey game">first indoor game</a> of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> was played at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Skating_Rink" title="Victoria Skating Rink">Victoria Skating Rink</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Creighton_(ice_hockey)" title="James Creighton (ice hockey)">James Creighton</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> students.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics" title="National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics">National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics</a> (NACA), the predecessor of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, was founded.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – A former <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armia_Krajowa" title="Armia Krajowa" class="mw-redirect">Armia Krajowa</a> unit <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw%C5%82okoma_massacre" title="Pawłokoma massacre">massacred</a> at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw%C5%82okoma" title="Pawłokoma">Pawłokoma</a>, Poland.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a> – Two passenger trains <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczekociny_rail_crash" title="Szczekociny rail crash">collided head-on</a> near the town of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczekociny" title="Szczekociny">Szczekociny</a> in Poland, resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List 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srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Robert_Mugabe.jpg/124px-Robert_Mugabe.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Robert_Mugabe.jpg/165px-Robert_Mugabe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1184" data-file-height="1436"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/306" title="306">306</a> – Roman <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovians_and_Herculians" title="Jovians and Herculians">Herculian guard</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_and_Natalia_of_Nicomedia" title="Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia">Adrian of Nicomedia</a>, who had converted to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he had been torturing, was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyred</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1681" title="1681">1681</a> – King <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II of England</a> granted <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quaker</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn" title="William Penn">William Penn</a> a charter for the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania" title="Province of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania Colony</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899" title="1899">1899</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mahina" title="Cyclone Mahina">Cyclone Mahina</a> struck <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathurst_Bay" title="Bathurst Bay">Bathurst Bay</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a>, killing over 400 people, the deadliest <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster" title="Natural disaster">natural disaster</a> in Australian history.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – The first known case of the so-called <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic" title="1918 flu pandemic">Spanish flu</a> was first observed at <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Riley,_Kansas" title="Fort Riley, Kansas" class="mw-redirect">Fort Riley, Kansas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe" title="Robert Mugabe">Robert Mugabe</a> (pictured) of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe_African_National_Union" title="Zimbabwe African National Union">Zimbabwe African National Union</a> was elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/CheHigh.jpg/78px-CheHigh.jpg" width="78" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/CheHigh.jpg/117px-CheHigh.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/CheHigh.jpg/156px-CheHigh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2995" data-file-height="3838"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1616" title="1616">1616</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus" title="Nicolaus Copernicus">Nicolaus Copernicus</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium" title="De revolutionibus orbium coelestium">De revolutionibus orbium coelestium</a>, describing his <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_heliocentrism" title="Copernican heliocentrism">heliocentric theory</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>, was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum">prohibited</a> by the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Roman Catholic Church" class="mw-redirect">Roman Catholic Church</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770" title="1770">1770</a> – British soldiers fired into a crowd in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre" title="Boston Massacre">killing five civilians</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1824" title="1824">1824</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Burmese_War" title="First Anglo-Burmese War">First Anglo-Burmese War</a>, the longest and most expensive war in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Indian</a> history, began.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – Cuban photographer <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Korda" title="Alberto Korda">Alberto Korda</a> took his <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico" title="Guerrillero Heroico">iconic photograph</a> (pictured) of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> revolutionary <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – Computer <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist)" title="Hacker (hobbyist)">hackers</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a> held the first meeting of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club" title="Homebrew Computer Club">Homebrew Computer Club</a>, whose members would go on to have great influence on the development of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">personal computer</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957">1957</a>); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi" title="Holi">Holi</a> (Hinduism, 2015); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim#Shushan_Purim" title="Purim">Shushan Purim</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa" title="Susa">Susa</a> (Judaism, 2015) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg" class="image" title="Petru Groza"><img alt="Petru Groza" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg/73px-Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg" width="73" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg/110px-Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg/147px-Petru_Groza_Anefo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1452" data-file-height="1972"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/961" title="961">961</a> – The Muslim <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete" title="Emirate of Crete">Emirate of Crete</a> was conquered by the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1665" title="1665">1665</a> – The first joint Secretary of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Oldenburg" title="Henry Oldenburg">Henry Oldenburg</a>, published the first issue of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society">Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society</a>, the world's longest-running scientific journal.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_traviata" title="La traviata">La traviata</a> premiered at <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice" title="La Fenice">La Fenice</a>, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused the Italian composer to revise portions of the opera.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Groza" title="Petru Groza">Petru Groza</a> (pictured) of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughmen%27s_Front" title="Ploughmen's Front">Ploughmen's Front</a> became the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Romania" title="Prime Minister of Romania">Prime Minister</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party" title="Communist party">Communist Party</a>-dominated governments of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">Romania</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – Iran and Iraq signed the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Algiers_Agreement" title="1975 Algiers Agreement">Algiers Agreement</a> to settle a border dispute, only to begin fighting again five years later in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_6" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6">view</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/March_6" title="Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 6">talk</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_6&action=edit">edit</a> – <a class="external text" 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srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Bloody_Sunday-Alabama_police_attack.jpeg/150px-Bloody_Sunday-Alabama_police_attack.jpeg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Bloody_Sunday-Alabama_police_attack.jpeg/200px-Bloody_Sunday-Alabama_police_attack.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="171"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/321" title="321">321</a> – Emperor <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great" title="Constantine the Great">Constantine I</a> decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus">Sol Invictus</a>, would be the Roman day of rest.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Paranhos,_Viscount_of_Rio_Branco" title="José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco">José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco</a>, became Prime Minister of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil" title="Empire of Brazil">Empire of Brazil</a>, starting a four-year rule, the longest in the state's history.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: In <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lumberjack" title="Operation Lumberjack">Operation Lumberjack</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied forces</a> seized the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludendorff_Bridge" title="Ludendorff Bridge">Ludendorff Bridge</a> over the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a>, enabling them to establish and expand a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodgement" title="Lodgement">lodgement</a> on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Western Front (World War II)">Western Front</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965" title="1965">1965</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%9368)" title="African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)" class="mw-redirect">African-American Civil Rights Movement</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights" class="mw-redirect">Civil rights</a> demonstrators marching from <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma,_Alabama" title="Selma, Alabama">Selma</a> to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama" title="Montgomery, Alabama">Montgomery, Alabama</a>, were brutally attacked by police (pictured) on <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches" title="Selma to Montgomery marches">Bloody Sunday</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_record" title="Charity record">charity single</a> "<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World" title="We Are the World">We Are the World</a>" by the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroup_(music)" title="Supergroup (music)">supergroup</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_for_Africa" title="USA for Africa">USA for Africa</a> was released, and would go on to sell over 20 million copies.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8" title="March 8">March 8</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal 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<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a>; <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day" title="Mother's Day">Mother's Day</a> in various countries <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg" class="image" title="Johannes Kepler"><img alt="Johannes Kepler" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg/73px-Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg" width="73" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg/109px-Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg/145px-Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2060"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1010" title="1010">1010</a> – Persian poet <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi" title="Ferdowsi">Ferdowsi</a> completed his masterpiece, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh" title="Shahnameh">Shahnameh</a>, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_epic" title="National epic">national epic</a> of Iran and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_cultural_continent" title="Iranian cultural continent" class="mw-redirect">related societies</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1618" title="1618">1618</a> – German astronomer and mathematician <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> (pictured) discovered the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion" title="Kepler's laws of planetary motion">third law of planetary motion</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – During the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Revolution_of_1919" title="Egyptian Revolution of 1919">Egyptian Revolution of 1919</a>, British authorities arrested <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saad_Zaghloul" title="Saad Zaghloul">Saad Zaghloul</a> and two others, exiling them to Malta.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27ath_Party" title="Ba'ath Party">Ba'ath Party</a> came to power in Syria in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1963 Syrian coup d'état">a coup d'état</a> by a clique of quasi-leftist <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Army" title="Syrian Army">Syrian Army</a> officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 370">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370</a> disappeared en route from <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a> to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>, prompting <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370" title="Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370">the most expensive search</a> in aviation history.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8" title="March 8">March 8</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Day" title="Commonwealth Day">Commonwealth Day</a> in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a> (2015); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Bliss" title="Baron Bliss">National Heroes and Benefactors Day</a> in Belize (2015) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adamsmithout.jpg" class="image" title="Bust of Adam Smith"><img alt="Bust of Adam Smith" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Adamsmithout.jpg/85px-Adamsmithout.jpg" width="85" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Adamsmithout.jpg/128px-Adamsmithout.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Adamsmithout.jpg/171px-Adamsmithout.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1708" data-file-height="2000"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1009" title="1009">1009</a> – The first known record of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Lithuania" title="Name of Lithuania">name of Lithuania</a> appeared in an entry in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_Quedlinburg" title="Annals of Quedlinburg">annals of the Quedlinburg Abbey</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony-Anhalt" title="Saxony-Anhalt">Saxony-Anhalt</a>, Germany.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations" title="The Wealth of Nations">The Wealth of Nations</a> by Scottish <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy" title="Political economy">political economist</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a> (bust pictured) was first published, becoming the first modern work in the field of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economics</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842" title="1842">1842</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco" title="Nabucco">Nabucco</a>, an opera by Italian <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music" title="Romantic music">Romantic</a> composer <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a> that established his reputation as a composer, premiered at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">Teatro alla Scala</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93California_Exposition" title="Panama–California Exposition">Panama–California Exposition</a> opened in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_Park_(San_Diego)" title="Balboa Park (San Diego)">Balboa Park</a>, celebrating the opening of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> began <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%27s_War" title="Pink's War">a bombardment and strafing campaign</a> against the mountain strongholds of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsud" title="Mahsud">Mahsud</a> tribesmen in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Waziristan" title="South Waziristan">South Waziristan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: A <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo" title="Bombing of Tokyo">bomb raid on Tokyo</a> by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">American</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-29 Superfortress">B-29 heavy bombers</a> started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8" title="March 8">March 8</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_9" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 9">view</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/March_9" title="Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 9">talk</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_9&action=edit">edit</a> – <a class="external text" 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data-file-height="357"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830" title="1830">1830</a> – By royal decree, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_East_Indies_Army" title="Royal Netherlands East Indies Army">Royal Netherlands East Indies Army</a> was established to be the military force maintained by the Netherlands in its colony of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876" title="1876">1876</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell" title="Alexander Graham Bell">Alexander Graham Bell</a> made his <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone" title="Invention of the telephone">first successful bi-directional telephone call</a>, saying, "<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Watson" title="Thomas A. Watson">Mr. Watson</a>, come here, I want to see you."</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965" title="1965">1965</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Playford_IV" title="Thomas Playford IV">Thomas Playford</a> (pictured), <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_South_Australia" title="Premier of South Australia">Premier of South Australia</a>, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia" title="History of Australia">history of Australia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Spring_Offensive" title="1975 Spring Offensive">Ho Chi Minh Campaign</a>: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ban_Me_Thuot" title="Battle of Ban Me Thuot">Ban Me Thuot</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Chee-hwa" title="Tung Chee-hwa">Tung Chee-hwa</a>, the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chief Executive of Hong Kong">Chief Executive of Hong Kong</a>, announced his resignation following widespread dissatisfaction with his leadership.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg" class="image" title="Michelle Bachelet"><img alt="Michelle Bachelet" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg/100px-Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg" width="100" height="99" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg/150px-Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg/200px-Michelle_Bachelet_foto_campa%C3%B1a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1941" data-file-height="1924"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/222" title="222">222</a> – Disgusted with <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus" title="Elagabalus">Elagabalus</a>'s disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo" title="Taboo">taboos</a>, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" title="Praetorian Guard">Praetorian Guard</a> assassinated him and his mother <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Soaemias" title="Julia Soaemias">Julia Soaemias</a>, mutilated their bodies, and threw them in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber_River" title="Tiber River" class="mw-redirect">Tiber River</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a> – A crack in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Dyke_Dam" title="Dale Dyke Dam" class="mw-redirect">Dale Dyke Dam</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>, England, caused it to fail, and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sheffield_Flood" title="Great Sheffield Flood">the resulting flood</a> killed 238 people and damaged more than 600 homes.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879" title="1879">1879</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Tai" title="Shō Tai">Shō Tai</a>, the last king of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB_Kingdom" title="Ryūkyū Kingdom" class="mw-redirect">Ryūkyū Kingdom</a>, abdicated when the kingdom was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation" title="Annexation">annexed</a> by Japan and became <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture" title="Okinawa Prefecture">Okinawa Prefecture</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a> established the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Vietnam" title="Empire of Vietnam">Empire of Vietnam</a>, a short-lived <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_state" title="Puppet state">puppet state</a>, with <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%A3o_%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i" title="Bảo Đại">Bảo Đại</a> as its ruler.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet" title="Michelle Bachelet">Michelle Bachelet</a> (pictured) was inaugurated as the first female <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Chile" title="President of Chile">President of Chile</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a 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leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius" title="Belisarius">Belisarius</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881" title="1881">1881</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Watson_(footballer)" title="Andrew Watson (footballer)">Andrew Watson</a> made his debut with the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team" title="Scotland national football team">Scotland national football team</a> and became the world's first black international <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> player.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Gandhi</a> (pictured with <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarojini_Naidu" title="Sarojini Naidu">Sarojini Naidu</a>) began the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March" title="Salt March">Salt March</a>, a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride" title="Sodium chloride">salt</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India">colonial India</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – British diplomat <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Ismay,_1st_Baron_Ismay" title="Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay">Hastings Ismay</a> was appointed as the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_General_of_NATO" title="Secretary General of NATO">Secretary General of NATO</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century" title="1993 Storm of the Century">Storm of the Century</a> formed over the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a>; at its height its effects were directly experienced by nearly 40 percent of the United States' population.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_11" title="March 11">March 11</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala" title="Spanish conquest of Guatemala">Spanish conquest of Guatemala</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1845" title="1845">1845</a> – German composer <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)" title="Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)">Violin Concerto</a>, one of the most popular and most frequently performed <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_concerto" title="Violin concerto">violin concertos</a> of all time, was first played in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920" title="1920">1920</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch" title="Kapp Putsch">Kapp Putsch</a> briefly ousted the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a> government from <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel" title="Seikan Tunnel">Seikan Tunnel</a>, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world, opened between the cities of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakodate,_Hokkaido" title="Hakodate, Hokkaido">Hakodate</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aomori,_Aomori" title="Aomori, Aomori">Aomori</a>, Japan.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Francis</a> (pictured) was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave,_2013" title="Papal conclave, 2013">elected</a> pope, making him the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" title="Society of Jesus">Jesuit</a>, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope in over 1,000 years.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a 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Navy</a> Admiral <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng" title="John Byng">John Byng</a> was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court-martial" title="Court-martial">court-martialled</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad" title="Execution by firing squad">executed by firing squad</a> when he failed to "do his utmost" during the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Minorca_(1756)" title="Battle of Minorca (1756)">Battle of Minorca</a> at the start of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1794" title="1794">1794</a> – American inventor <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney" title="Eli Whitney">Eli Whitney</a> (pictured) patented the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">cotton gin</a>, the first ever machine that quickly and easily separated <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton" title="Cotton">cotton</a> fibers from their seedpods.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: British forces <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%A1s_a_Tierra" title="Battle of Más a Tierra">cornered and sank</a> the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Dresden_(1907)" title="SMS Dresden (1907)">SMS Dresden</a>, the last remnant of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_East_Asia_Squadron" title="German East Asia Squadron">German East Asia Squadron</a>, near the Chilean island of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Island" title="Robinson Crusoe Island">Más a Tierra</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">British Royal Air Force</a> first used the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)" title="Grand Slam (bomb)">Grand Slam</a>, a 22,000 <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)" title="Pound (mass)">lb</a> (9.98 <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>) <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb" title="Earthquake bomb">earthquake bomb</a>, on a strategic railway viaduct in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld" title="Bielefeld">Bielefeld</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a> – Italian publisher <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giangiacomo_Feltrinelli" title="Giangiacomo Feltrinelli">Giangiacomo Feltrinelli</a>, known for his decision to translate and publish <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak" title="Boris Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</a>'s novel <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(novel)" title="Doctor Zhivago (novel)">Doctor Zhivago</a> after it had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union, was killed in an explosion.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1848">National Day</a> in Hungary (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848" title="1848">1848</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_(cropped).jpg" class="image" title="The Death of Julius Caeasar by Vincenzo Camuccini"><img alt="The Death of Julius Caeasar by Vincenzo Camuccini" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="100" height="86" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="567" data-file-height="487"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44_BC" title="44 BC">44 BC</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">Dictator</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar" title="Assassination of Julius Caesar">was stabbed to death</a> (painting by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Camuccini" title="Vincenzo Camuccini">Vincenzo Camuccini</a> pictured) by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger" title="Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger">Marcus Junius Brutus</a> and several other <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Roman senators</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1311" title="1311">1311</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Company" title="Catalan Company">Catalan Company</a> defeated <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_V,_Count_of_Brienne" title="Walter V, Count of Brienne">Walter V, Count of Brienne</a> in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmyros" title="Battle of Halmyros">Battle of Halmyros</a> and took control of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Athens" title="Duchy of Athens">Duchy of Athens</a>, a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_states" title="Crusader states">Crusader state</a> in Greece.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875" title="1875">1875</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_New_York" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York">Archbishop of New York</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCloskey" title="John McCloskey">John McCloskey</a> was named the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">cardinal</a> in the United States.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Red_Army" title="Soviet Red Army" class="mw-redirect">Soviet Red Army</a> began the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesian_Offensive" title="Upper Silesian Offensive">Upper Silesian Offensive</a> aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesia" title="Upper Silesia">Upper Silesia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a> – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft" title="Farzad Bazoft">Farzad Bazoft</a> for <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">spying</a> for Israel.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_15" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15">view</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/March_15" title="Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 15">talk</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_15&action=edit">edit</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_15&action=history">history</a> <hr/> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Legion_Day" title="Latvian Legion Day">Latvian Legion Day</a> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:My_Lai_massacre.jpg" class="image" title="My Lai Massacre"><img alt="My Lai Massacre" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/My_Lai_massacre.jpg/100px-My_Lai_massacre.jpg" width="100" height="68" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/My_Lai_massacre.jpg/150px-My_Lai_massacre.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/My_Lai_massacre.jpg/200px-My_Lai_massacre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="486"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1322" title="1322">1322</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despenser_War" title="Despenser War">Despenser War</a>: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas,_2nd_Earl_of_Lancaster" title="Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster">Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster</a>, in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boroughbridge" title="Battle of Boroughbridge">Battle of Boroughbridge</a>, which allowed King <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_of_England" title="Edward II of England">Edward II of England</a> to hold on to power for another five years.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1621" title="1621">1621</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoset" title="Samoset">Samoset</a> became the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> to make contact with the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)" title="Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)" class="mw-redirect">Pilgrims</a> when he strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> and greeted them in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872" title="1872">1872</a> – In the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_FA_Cup_Final" title="1872 FA Cup Final">first-ever final</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a>, today the oldest <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a> competition in the world, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderers_F.C." title="Wanderers F.C.">Wanderers F.C.</a> defeated <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers_A.F.C." title="Royal Engineers A.F.C.">Royal Engineers A.F.C.</a> 1–0 at <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oval" title="The Oval">The Oval</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennington" title="Kennington">Kennington</a>, London.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">American soldiers</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre" title="My Lai Massacre">killed</a> hundreds of unarmed civilians (pictured) in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C6%A1n_M%E1%BB%B9" title="Sơn Mỹ" class="mw-redirect">Sơn Mỹ</a> village in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C6%A1n_T%E1%BB%8Bnh_District" title="Sơn Tịnh District">Sơn Tịnh District</a> of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984" title="1984">1984</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley" title="William Francis Buckley">William Buckley</a>, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" title="CIA" class="mw-redirect">CIA</a> station chief in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>, Lebanon, was kidnapped by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalists</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a 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href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_16&action=history">history</a> <hr/> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day" title="Saint Patrick's Day">Saint Patrick's Day</a> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Ramirez_CDCR.jpg" class="image" title="Richard Ramirez"><img alt="Richard Ramirez" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Richard_Ramirez_CDCR.jpg/68px-Richard_Ramirez_CDCR.jpg" width="68" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Richard_Ramirez_CDCR.jpg/102px-Richard_Ramirez_CDCR.jpg 1.5x, 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" title="Kingdom of Castile">Castile</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taifa_of_Murcia" title="Taifa of Murcia">Murcia</a> defeated the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Granada" title="Emirate of Granada">Emirate of Granada</a> at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Alporchones" title="Battle of Los Alporchones">Battle of Los Alporchones</a> around the city of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorca,_Spain" title="Lorca, Spain">Lorca</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> garrison in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, withdrew from the city, ending the 11‑month <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Boston" title="Siege of Boston">Siege of Boston</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955" title="1955">1955</a> – Six thousand people in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Riot" title="Richard Riot">rioted</a> to protest the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_(punishment)" title="Suspension (punishment)">suspension</a> of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> star <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Richard" title="Maurice Richard">Maurice Richard</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – American <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez" title="Richard Ramirez">Richard Ramirez</a> (pictured), known as "the Night Stalker", began a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_invasion" title="Home invasion">home invasion</a> burglary and killing spree that resulted in 13 deaths and 11 sexual assaults over the following five months.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_17" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 17">view</a> – <a 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of the Stanley Cup"><img alt="Current version of the Stanley Cup" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg/75px-Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg" width="75" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg/112px-Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg/150px-Stanley_cup_closeup.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="2560"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France" title="President of France">French President</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Thiers" title="Adolphe Thiers">Adolphe Thiers</a> ordered the evacuation of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> after an uprising broke out as the result of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">France</a>'s defeat in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, leading to the establishment of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune" title="Paris Commune">Paris Commune</a> government.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892" title="1892">1892</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby">Lord Stanley of Preston</a> pledged to donate an award for Canada's top-ranked amateur <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> club, now known as the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a> (pictured), the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado" title="Tri-State Tornado">Tri-State Tornado</a> spawned in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, traveled over 219 miles (352 km) across <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, and killed 695 along the way, making it the tornado with the longest continuous track ever recorded and the deadliest in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States" title="History of the United States">U.S. history</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – The first episode of the Australian <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours" title="Neighbours">Neighbours</a> was broadcast on the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Network" title="Seven Network">Seven Network</a>, eventually becoming the longest running drama in Australian television history.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – As per a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_order" title="Court order">court order</a>, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_tube" title="Feeding tube">feeding tube</a> of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case" title="Terri Schiavo case">Terri Schiavo</a>, an American woman who suffered <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_damage" title="Brain damage">brain damage</a>, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_and_activism_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case" title="Public opinion and activism in the Terri Schiavo case">a worldwide debate</a> on <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_18" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 18">view</a> – <a 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg/100px-PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg" width="100" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg/150px-PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg/200px-PIA18179_d-Pluto270-Hubble2003-20100204.jpg 2x" data-file-width="826" data-file-height="826"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1279" title="1279">1279</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Bing_of_Song" title="Emperor Bing of Song">Emperor Bing</a>, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_the_Song_dynasty" title="List of emperors of the Song dynasty">last emperor of the Song dynasty</a>, died during the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yamen" title="Battle of Yamen">Battle of Yamen</a>, bringing the dynasty to an end after three centuries.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808" title="1808">1808</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV_of_Spain" title="Charles IV of Spain">Charles IV of Spain</a> abdicated in favour of his son, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">Ferdinand VII</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a> (pictured) was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was officially discovered by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh" title="Clyde Tombaugh">Clyde Tombaugh</a> at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Observatory" title="Lowell Observatory">Lowell Observatory</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – The American <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network" title="Television network">network</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a>, dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, was launched.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War" title="Libyan Civil War" class="mw-redirect">Libyan Civil War</a>: The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Air_Force" title="French Air Force">French Air Force</a> launched <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Harmattan" title="Opération Harmattan">Opération Harmattan</a>, beginning <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">foreign military intervention</a> in Libya.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956" title="1956">1956</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beecher-Stowe.jpg" class="image" title="Harriet Beecher Stowe"><img alt="Harriet Beecher Stowe" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Beecher-Stowe.jpg/70px-Beecher-Stowe.jpg" width="70" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Beecher-Stowe.jpg/105px-Beecher-Stowe.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Beecher-Stowe.jpg/140px-Beecher-Stowe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2028" data-file-height="2898"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/235" title="235">235</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax" title="Maximinus Thrax">Maximinus Thrax</a> succeeded to the throne of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, a so-called <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks_emperor" title="Barracks emperor">barracks emperor</a> who gained power by virtue of his command of the army.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600" title="1600">1600</a> – Five advisers to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Swedish_union" title="Polish–Swedish union">Polish–Swedish</a> king <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa" title="Sigismund III Vasa">Sigismund III Vasa</a> were <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%C3%B6ping_Bloodbath" title="Linköping Bloodbath">publicly executed</a>, effectively ending his reign in Sweden.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1852" title="1852">1852</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin" title="Uncle Tom's Cabin">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a> by American author <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe" title="Harriet Beecher Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a> (pictured) was first published, profoundly affecting attitudes toward <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" title="African American">African Americans</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slavery in the United States</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Club_of_Chicago" title="Arts Club of Chicago">Arts Club of Chicago</a> hosted the opening of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>'s first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art" title="Modern art">modern art</a> in the U.S.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">The Troubles</a>: The second of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks" title="Warrington bomb attacks">two bomb attacks</a> by the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional IRA</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington" title="Warrington">Warrington</a>, England, killed two children.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Naw-R%C3%BAz" title="Bahá'í Naw-Rúz">Naw-Rúz</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar" title="Bahá'í calendar">Bahá'í calendar</a>); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day" title="Mother's Day">Mother's Day</a> in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world">Arab world</a>; <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_independence_days" title="List of national independence days">Independence Day</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg" class="image" title="Archbishop Thomas Cranmer"><img alt="Archbishop Thomas Cranmer" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/100px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg" width="100" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/150px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg/200px-Thomas-Cranmer-ez_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="288"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/630" title="630">630</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> emperor <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius">Heraclius</a> restored the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross" title="True Cross">True Cross</a> to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556" title="1556">1556</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a> (pictured), one of the founders of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, was <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_burning" title="Execution by burning" class="mw-redirect">burnt at the stake</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England, for <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_heresy" title="Christian heresy" class="mw-redirect">heresy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – Founder of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">Otto von Bismarck</a> was proclaimed as its first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_German_Empire" title="Chancellor of the German Empire" class="mw-redirect">Chancellor</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully defended the north bank of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drava_River" title="Drava River" class="mw-redirect">Drava River</a> as the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Transdanubian_Hills" title="Battle of the Transdanubian Hills">Battle of the Transdanubian Hills</a> concluded.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> – British schoolgirl <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler" title="Murder of Milly Dowler">Amanda Dowler</a> was abducted on her way home from <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathside_School" title="Heathside School">Heathside School</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton-on-Thames" title="Walton-on-Thames">Walton-on-Thames</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_Sunday" title="Passion Sunday">Passion Sunday</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, 2015) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg" class="image" title="1765 tax stamp"><img alt="1765 tax stamp" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg/73px-1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg" width="73" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg/110px-1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg/146px-1765_one_penny_stamp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="265" data-file-height="362"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1765" title="1765">1765</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament of Great Britain</a> passed the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765" title="Stamp Act 1765">Stamp Act</a>, requiring that many printed materials in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a> carry a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_stamp" title="Revenue stamp">tax stamp</a> (pictured).</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woods_Holden" title="William Woods Holden">William Woods Holden</a> became the first governor of a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> to be removed from office due to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment" title="Impeachment">impeachment</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a>: The construction of the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">Nazi concentration camp</a> at <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp" title="Dachau concentration camp">Dachau</a> was completed.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan" title="Emirate of Transjordan">Transjordan</a>, and Yemen founded the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a>, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world">Arab world</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – Russian <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">cosmonaut</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov" title="Valeri Polyakov">Valeri Polyakov</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_programme" title="Soyuz programme">Soyuz programme</a> returned from the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir" title="Mir">Mir</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_station" title="Space station">space station</a> after 437 days in space, setting a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records" title="List of spaceflight records">record for the longest spaceflight</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_(c._1897).jpg" class="image" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad"><img alt="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg/69px-Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg" width="69" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg/104px-Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg/139px-Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_%28c._1897%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1475" data-file-height="2127"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775" title="1775">1775</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Patrick Henry</a> made his "<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death!" title="Give me liberty, or give me death!">Give me liberty, or give me death!</a>" speech to the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Burgesses_of_Virginia" title="House of Burgesses of Virginia" class="mw-redirect">House of Burgesses of Virginia</a>, urging military action against the British Empire.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889" title="1889">1889</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a> (pictured), founded the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> Islamic religious movement in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905" title="1905">1905</a> – About 1,500 <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Cretans</a>, led by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleftherios_Venizelos" title="Eleftherios Venizelos">Eleftherios Venizelos</a>, met at the village of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriso" title="Theriso">Theriso</a> to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriso_revolt" title="Theriso revolt">Theriso revolt</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Movement" title="Pakistan Movement">Pakistan Movement</a>: During its three-day general session, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-India_Muslim_League" title="All-India Muslim League">Muslim League</a> drafted the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore_Resolution" title="Lahore Resolution">Lahore Resolution</a>, calling for greater autonomy in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – A <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion" title="Texas City Refinery explosion">fire and explosion</a> at the third-largest <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery" title="Oil refinery">oil refinery</a> in the United States killed 15 workers and kicked off process safety programs throughout the world.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tuberculosis_Day" title="World Tuberculosis Day">World Tuberculosis Day</a> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exval.jpeg" class="image" title="Exxon Valdez"><img alt="Exxon Valdez" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Exval.jpeg/100px-Exval.jpeg" width="100" height="67" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Exval.jpeg/150px-Exval.jpeg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Exval.jpeg/200px-Exval.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="376" data-file-height="251"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin" title="Rōnin">Rōnin</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai" title="Samurai">samurai</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mito_Domain" title="Mito Domain">Mito Domain</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuradamon_Incident_(1860)" title="Sakuradamon Incident (1860)">assassinated</a> Japanese Chief Minister <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ii_Naosuke" title="Ii Naosuke">Ii Naosuke</a>, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882" title="1882">1882</a> – German physician <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch" title="Robert Koch">Robert Koch</a> announced the discovery of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis" title="Mycobacterium tuberculosis">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</a>, a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria" title="Bacteria">bacterium</a> that causes <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a> – Following the capture of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a> by an alliance of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang" title="Kuomintang">Nationalist</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China" title="Communist Party of China">Communist</a> forces, British and American warships <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident" title="Nanking Incident">bombarded the city</a> in defence of foreign citizens there.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>: Captured <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> airmen began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp" title="Prisoner-of-war camp">prison camp</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III" title="Stalag Luft III">Stalag Luft III</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_(ship)" title="Tanker (ship)">tanker</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez" title="Exxon Valdez">Exxon Valdez</a> (pictured) <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill" title="Exxon Valdez oil spill">spilled</a> more than 10 million US gallons of oil into <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_Sound" title="Prince William Sound">Prince William Sound</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, causing one of the most devastating man-made <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_disaster" title="Environmental disaster">environmental disasters</a> at sea.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_on_on_arrival_ceremony_welcoming_05-27-1971_(cropped).jpg" class="image" title="King Faisal of Saudi Arabia"><img alt="King Faisal of Saudi Arabia" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_on_on_arrival_ceremony_welcoming_05-27-1971_%28cropped%29.jpg/91px-King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_on_on_arrival_ceremony_welcoming_05-27-1971_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="91" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_on_on_arrival_ceremony_welcoming_05-27-1971_%28cropped%29.jpg/136px-King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_on_on_arrival_ceremony_welcoming_05-27-1971_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, 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<li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1802" title="1802">1802</a> – France and the United Kingdom signed the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens" title="Treaty of Amiens">Treaty of Amiens</a>, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a> – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Nicholas II</a>, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocephaly" title="Autocephaly">autocephaly</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_Church" title="Georgian Orthodox Church">Georgian Orthodox Church</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – King <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Faisal of Saudi Arabia">Faisal of Saudi Arabia</a> (pictured) was shot and killed by his nephew <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_bin_Musaid" title="Faisal bin Musaid">Faisal bin Musaid</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – American <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programmer" title="Computer programmer" class="mw-redirect">computer programmer</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham" title="Ward Cunningham">Ward Cunningham</a> established the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">wiki</a> site, the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb" title="WikiWikiWeb">WikiWikiWeb</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Bangladesh)" title="Independence Day (Bangladesh)">Independence Day</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dirham_Saladin.jpg" class="image" title="Dirham copper coin showing Saladin"><img alt="Dirham copper coin showing Saladin" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Dirham_Saladin.jpg/95px-Dirham_Saladin.jpg" width="95" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Dirham_Saladin.jpg/142px-Dirham_Saladin.jpg 1.5x, 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Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saint movement</a>, was first published.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: Attempting to advance into <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine" title="Palestine">Palestine</a>, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza" title="First Battle of Gaza">First Battle of Gaza</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Nationalists</a> began their <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War" title="Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War">final offensive of the war</a>, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – A group of peasant women in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamoli_district" title="Chamoli district">Chamoli district</a>, <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttarakhand" title="Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a>, India, used their bodies to surround trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipko_movement" title="Chipko movement">Chipko movement</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a 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Jiang Zemin of China"><img alt="President Jiang Zemin of China" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg/79px-Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg" width="79" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg/118px-Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg/158px-Jiang_Zemin_at_Hickam_Air_Base%2C_October_26%2C_1997%2C_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="264" data-file-height="335"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1329" title="1329">1329</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXII" title="Pope John XXII">Pope John XXII</a> issued a <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">papal bull</a> that some of the works of German <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theologian</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mysticism" title="German mysticism">mystic</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart" title="Meister Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a> were <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretical</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1782" title="1782">1782</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Rockingham" title="Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham">Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham</a>, a leading British <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whig Party</a> statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of Great Britain</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850" title="1850">1850</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, the first European settlement in what is now <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, was incorporated as a city.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a> movement in Poland staged <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_warning_strike_in_Poland" title="1981 warning strike in Poland">a warning strike</a>, the biggest <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">strike</a> in the history of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a>, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin" title="Jiang Zemin">Jiang Zemin</a> (pictured) succeeded <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shangkun" title="Yang Shangkun">Yang Shangkun</a> to become <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="President of the People's Republic of China">President of the People's Republic of China</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 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src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg/100px-Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg" width="100" height="78" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg/150px-Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg/200px-Three_Mile_Island_%28color%29-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="678" data-file-height="532"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1802" title="1802">1802</a> – German astronomer <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Matthias_Olbers" title="Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers">Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers</a> discovered <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas" title="2 Pallas">2 Pallas</a>, the second <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a> known to man.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910" title="1910">1910</a> – Near <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martigues" title="Martigues">Martigues</a>, France, French aviator <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fabre" title="Henri Fabre">Henri Fabre</a>'s <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion" title="Fabre Hydravion">Fabre Hydravion</a> became the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaplane" title="Seaplane">seaplane</a> to take off from water under its own power.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920" title="1920">1920</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak" title="1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak">An outbreak of 37 tornadoes</a> across the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a> left more than 380 people dead.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a> – Turkey <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul" title="Names of Istanbul">changed the name</a> of its largest city <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> to <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident" title="Three Mile Island accident">A partial core meltdown</a> of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_Nuclear_Generating_Station" title="Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station">Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station</a> (pictured) near <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</a>, resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie" title="Curie">curies</a> (1.59 <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabecquerel" title="Petabecquerel" class="mw-redirect">PBq</a>) of radioactive <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton" title="Krypton">krypton</a> to the environment.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" 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href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Boganda" title="Barthélemy Boganda">Boganda Day</a> in the Central African Republic; <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_Uprising" title="Malagasy Uprising">Martyrs' Day</a> in Madagascar (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NPA.png" class="image" title="Flag of the New People's Army"><img alt="Flag of the New People's Army" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/NPA.png/100px-NPA.png" width="100" height="67" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/NPA.png/150px-NPA.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/NPA.png/200px-NPA.png 2x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="217"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1461" title="1461">1461</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_York" title="House of York">Yorkist</a> troops defeated <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lancaster" title="House of Lancaster">Lancastrian</a> forces at the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton" title="Battle of Towton">Battle of Towton</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, England, the largest battle in the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a> up until that time with approximately 20,000 casualties.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882" title="1882">1882</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus" title="Knights of Columbus">Knights of Columbus</a>, the world's largest Catholic fraternal <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_club" title="Service club">service organization</a>, was founded by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._McGivney" title="Michael J. McGivney">Michael J. McGivney</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, US.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" title="1969">1969</a> – The <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army" title="New People's Army">New People's Army</a> (flag pictured), the armed wing of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Philippines" title="Communist Party of the Philippines">Communist Party of the Philippines</a>, was formed.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – A group of farmers in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi" title="Shaanxi">Shaanxi</a> province, China, discovered a vast collection of <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> statues depicting the armies of the first <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Emperor of China</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang" title="Qin Shi Huang">Qin Shi Huang</a>, now known as the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army" title="Terracotta Army">Terracotta Army</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Beardsley" title="Dick Beardsley">Dick Beardsley</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Simonsen" title="Inge Simonsen">Inge Simonsen</a> jointly won the first running of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Marathon" title="London Marathon">London Marathon</a>.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_29" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29">view</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/March_29" title="Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 29">talk</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_29&action=edit">edit</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_29&action=history">history</a> <hr/> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day" title="Land Day">Land Day</a> (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" title="Palestinian people">Palestinians</a>) <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_seward.JPG" class="image" title="William H. Seward"><img alt="William H. Seward" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/William_seward.JPG/79px-William_seward.JPG" width="79" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/William_seward.JPG/119px-William_seward.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/William_seward.JPG/159px-William_seward.JPG 2x" data-file-width="161" data-file-height="203"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1282" title="1282">1282</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicilians</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Vespers" title="Sicilian Vespers">began to rebel</a> against the rule of the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou" title="Capetian House of Anjou">Angevin</a> King <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Naples" title="Charles I of Naples">Charles I of Naples</a>, starting the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Sicilian_Vespers" title="War of the Sicilian Vespers">War of the Sicilian Vespers</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">U.S. Secretary of State</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">William H. Seward</a> (pictured) negotiated the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase" title="Alaska Purchase">purchase of Alaska</a> for US$7.2 million from Russia.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899" title="1899">1899</a> – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Isotopic_Abundances_and_Atomic_Weights" title="Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights">International Committee on Atomic Weights</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!" title="Jeopardy!">Jeopardy!</a>, the popular American <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_show" title="Game show">game show</a> created by <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin" title="Merv Griffin">Merv Griffin</a>, made its debut on the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC television network</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – Twelve gunmen <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lahore_police_academy_attacks" title="2009 Lahore police academy attacks">attacked</a> the <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manawan_Police_Training_School" title="Manawan Police Training School" class="mw-redirect">Manawan Police Training School</a> in <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a>, Pakistan, and held it for several hours before security forces could retake it.</li> </ul> More anniversaries: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">Archive – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></div> <div style="text-align: right;">It is now March 23, 2015 (<a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March&action=purge">Reload this page</a></div> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_30" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30">view</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/March_30" title="Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 30">talk</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_30&action=edit">edit</a> – <a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March_30&action=history">history</a> <hr/> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a>: <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudi_Padwa" title="Gudi Padwa">Gudi Padwa</a> and <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugadi" title="Ugadi">Ugadi</a> in various parts of India (2014); <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Thailand" title="Public holidays in Thailand">King Nangklao Memorial Day</a> in Thailand; <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez_Day" title="Cesar Chavez Day">Cesar Chavez Day</a> in various U.S. states <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em"> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Matthewperry.jpg" class="image" title="Woodcut picture of Matthew C. Perry by an unknown artist"><img alt="Woodcut picture of Matthew C. Perry by an unknown artist" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Matthewperry.jpg/67px-Matthewperry.jpg" width="67" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Matthewperry.jpg/101px-Matthewperry.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150323125747im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Matthewperry.jpg/135px-Matthewperry.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1006" data-file-height="1493"/></a> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/627" title="627">627</a> – Muslim–Quraish Wars: A confederation of tribes began <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Trench" title="Battle of the Trench">an ultimately unsuccessful siege</a> of Yathrib (now <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina" title="Medina">Medina</a>) against <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a> and his army.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854" title="1854">1854</a> – <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_(rank)" title="Commodore (rank)">Commodore</a> <a href="/web/20150323125747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry" title="Matthew C. Perry">Matthew C. 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