March 15: Day Of The Week
March 15, 2013 is the 74th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
March 15: This Day In History
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
March 15 Historical Events
- 44 BC –Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
- 1888 –Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- 1922 –After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- 1926 –The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1931 –SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 1933 –Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
- 1961 –South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1986 –Hotel New World Disaster a 1 star hotel collapses in Singapore’s Little India’s district killing 33 people
- 1990 –Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
Who were born on March 15?
- 1684 –Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
- 1860 –Waldemar Haffkine, Russian Jewish bacteriologist (d. 1930)
- 1912 –Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
- 1915 –Caterina Boratto, Italian film actress (d. 2010)
- 1916 –Frank Coghlan Jr, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1935 –Judd Hirsch, American actor
- 1972 –Mike Tomlin, American football coach
- 1973 –Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor & model
- 1975 –Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- 1985 –Curtis Davies, English footballer
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