406 Historic Events for March 15
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| 1908 |
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1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
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| 1910 |
Birth |
An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
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| 1912 |
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Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
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| 1913 |
Event |
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
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| 1913 |
Birth |
MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
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| 1913 |
Event |
1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
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| 1915 |
Event |
Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea
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| 1915 |
Birth |
David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
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| 1916 |
Event |
Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
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| 1916 |
Event |
University of Gent goes under Dutch control
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| 1917 |
Event |
Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
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| 1918 |
Death |
Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
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| 1918 |
Death |
Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
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| 1918 |
Death |
Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Janet Leach, potter
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
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| 1919 |
Event |
American Legion forms (Paris)
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| 1919 |
Birth |
John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
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