Historical Events on March 15

On This Day in History: March 15

1. In 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome in March, stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius, and other Roman senators.
2. In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after completing his first voyage to the New World.
3. In 1770, 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his String Quartet No. 1 (K. 80) in Lodi, Lombardy, during a tour of the Duchy of Milan.
4. The first Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground began in 1877, with Australia defeating England by 45 runs in four days.
5. In 1906, Henry Rolls, Charles Royce and Claude Johnson officially founded Rolls-Royce Limited, formalising their partnership.
6. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson held the first US presidential press conference.
7. In 1916, General John J. Pershing led 15,000 U.S. troops into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.
8. In 1922, Sultan Fuad was proclaimed King of Egypt as Britain officially recognised Egypt’s independence.
9. In 1930, the US Navy’s first streamlined submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched.
10. In 1937, the first US hospital-based blood bank was established at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
11. In 1946 British Prime Minister Clement Attlee acknowledged India’s right to independence.
12. In 1949, cricket legend Don Bradman was knighted by Australia’s Governor-General W.J. McKell in the Queen’s Hall of Parliament House in Melbourne.
13. In 1956, Whipper Billy Watson defeated Lou Thesz in Toronto to win the NWA Wrestling Championship.
14. In 1958, Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals set a Midwest area record by scoring 56 points in an NBA game.
15. In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain became the first player to score 4,000 points in a single NBA season.