406 Historic Events for March 15
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| 1852 |
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Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
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| 1855 |
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Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
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| 1855 |
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L£tzen Wagenaar, Frisian writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages)
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| 1858 |
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Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
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| 1862 |
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Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
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| 1864 |
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Johan Halvorsen, composer
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| 1864 |
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Leslie Stuart, composer
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| 1864 |
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Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
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| 1867 |
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Will Rossiter, composer
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| 1867 |
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Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland and Other Poems)
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| 1867 |
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Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
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| 1869 |
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Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
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| 1869 |
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Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
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| 1871 |
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Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
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| 1873 |
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Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY and LA named after him)
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| 1873 |
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David Vaughan Thomas, composer
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| 1874 |
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Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
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| 1875 |
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1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
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| 1877 |
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Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG
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| 1878 |
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Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
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| 1879 |
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Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
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| 1880 |
Death |
Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
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| 1881 |
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Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
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| 1883 |
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Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
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| 1884 |
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Rudolf Piskacek, composer
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