March 15 is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days remaining until the end of the year is 291.

Railways

• March 15, 1931 Opening of the Gölbaşı Malatya line (110 km). The Swedish-Danish group builds.
• March 15, 2019 Kabataş The first stage of the Seagull project is in operation

Olaylar

• 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
• 1820 – Maine joins the United States, becoming the nation’s 23rd state.
• 1848 – The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 breaks out.
• 1892 – The escalator is patented by Jesse W. Reno.
• 1892 – Liverpool F.C. founded.
• 1917-II. Nicholas abdicated in favor of his brother Michael.
• 1919 – Merzifon is occupied.
• 1920 – British authorities arrest 150 people in Istanbul.
• 1921 – Former Ottoman Grand Vizier Talat Pasha is killed by 23-year-old Soghomon Tehlirian in Berlin for his role in the Armenian Genocide.
• 1928 – Beginning of the March 15 Incident. Arrest warrants were issued for many Communists in the Empire of Japan.
• 1933 – Hitler in Germany, III. He proclaimed the Reich.
• 1938 – 18 people sentenced to death by an extraordinary court in the USSR, including Nikolay Bukharin, one of the leaders of the October Revolution, are executed.
• 1939 – President Emil Hácha accepts Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Second Czechoslovak Republic and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is proclaimed.
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• 1961 – South Africa leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1961 – Turkish Daily News has been established. Since November 3, 2008 Hürriyet Daily News got his name.
• 1964 – Actress Richard Burton marries actress Elizabeth Taylor.
• 1985 – The first domain name registration is made on the Internet. (symbolics.com)
• 1989 – In the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, Galatasaray drew 1-1 in the match between Monaco and the Müngersdorf stadium in Cologne, becoming the first Turkish team to reach the semi-finals of this cup.
• 2001 – A Tupolev Tu-154 type aircraft, which was part of the Istanbul-Moscow expedition, was hijacked by Chechen pirates. Turkish passenger Gürsel Kambal, Russian flight attendant Yuria Fomina and a pirate were killed in the operation organized by Saudi counter-terrorism teams on board the plane which landed in Medina.
• 2002 – T2, one of the Southeastern Anatolia Project’s irrigation tunnels, became operational.
• 2003 – Hu Jintao is inaugurated as the 4th President of China.
• 2004 – For the first time in the People’s Republic of China, a legislator announces that 10 people are executed each year in the country. The country is keeping its execution figures secret due to criticism from human rights organizations.
• 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian civil war.
• 2011 – Kenan Evren gave an interview to the Mehmetçik Foundation, of which he is one of the founders. This was Evren’s last interview.
• 2019 – Christchurch Mosque Attacks: 51 people were killed and 49 injured in the attacks on the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch, New Zealand. The moment of the incident was broadcast live on social media by the attacker.

births

• 270 – Saint Nicholas, Greek Christian saint and bishop (died 343)
• 1638 – Shunzhi, Third Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (died 1661)
• 1713 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
• 1738 – Cesare Beccaria, Italian lawyer, philosopher, economist and man of letters (died 1794)
• 1746 – Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist, diplomat, historian of science and Catholic priest (died 1822)
• 1767 – Andrew Jackson, American politician and 7th President of the United States (died 1845)
• 1778 – Pauline Fourès, French painter and novelist (died 1869)
• 1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (died 1895)
• Paul Heyse, German writer and Nobel laureate (died 1914)
• Élisée Reclus, French geographer, historian, writer, vegetarian, anarchist (died 1905)
• 1833 – Géza Fejérváry, Hungarian general (died 1914)
• 1835 – Dürrinev Kadınefendi, Sultan Abdülaziz’s first wife and chief lady (died 1895)
• 1851 – William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar (died 1939)
• 1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1917)
• 1859 – Camille Julian, French historian (died 1933)
• 1869 Stanislaw Wojciechowski, Polish politician (died 1953)
• 1872 – Boris Drangov, Bulgarian colonel and war pedagogue (died 1917)
• 1874 – Harold L. Ickes, American politician (died 1952)
• 1875 – Faik Bey Konitza, Albanian writer, statesman (died 1942)
• 1878 – Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (died 1944)
• 1879 – Yakov Ganetsky, Soviet diplomat and politician (died 1937)
• 1886 – Lili Berky, Hungarian actress (died 1958)
• 1887 – Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician, statesman, soldier, Governor of Manisa and Istanbul and Minister of Health (died 1961)
• 1887 – Leslie Knighton, England manager (died 1959)
• 1887 – Father Salim Öğütçen, Turkish folk poet (died 1956)
• 1887 – Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, Prime Minister of Albania (died 1958)
• 1888 – Refik Halit Karay, Turkish writer (died 1965)
• 1888 – Sophus Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (died 1963)
• 1892 – Laura Papo Bohoreta, Bosnian Jewish feminist and author (died 1942)
• 1897 – Ağasadık Geraybeyli, Azerbaijani filmmaker (died 1988)
• 1931 – Faruk Geç, Turkish journalist, painter, comic novelist and illustrator (died 2014)
• 1932 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American album producer (died 2006)
• 1933 – Philippe de Broca, French director (died 2004)
• 1936 – Göksel Arsoy, Turkish film and theater actor
• 1938 – Mehmet Sağlam, Turkish politician
• 1938 – Şükrü Saban, Turkish athlete
• 1941 – Tomris Uyar, Turkish novelist and translator (died 2003)
• 1942 – Molly Peters, English actress (died 2017)
• 1943 – David Cronenberg, Canadian filmmaker
• 1944 – Nebahat Çehre, Turkish actress and singer
• 1946 – Mahir Çayan, Turkish revolutionary and leader of THKP-C (died 1972)
• 1947 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist and singer
• 1948 – Övgün Ahmet Ercan, Turkish scientist and geophysical engineer
• 1952 – Cemal Gencer, Turkish film and TV series actor (died 2005)
• 1953 – Bulut Aras, Turkish film actor
• 1953 – Erik-Jan Zürcher, Dutch scientist
• 1953 – Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
• 1956 – Hasan Akıncıoğlu, Turkish businessman and former president of Antalyaspor
• 1956 – Hasan Doğan, Turkish businessman and President of the Turkish Football Federation (died 2008)
• 1968 – Jon Schaffer, American musician
• 1972 – İbrahim Sediyani, Kurdish-Turkish journalist, writer, poet, traveler and nature activist
• 1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress
• 1979 – Onur Aydın, Turkish basketball player
• 1983 – Umut Bulut, Turkish footballer
• 1985 – Kellan Lutz, American actress and model
• 1986 – Jai Courtney, Australian actress
• 1986 – Serkan Çalık, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Lil Dicky, American singer
• 1989 – Adrien Silva is a Portuguese national football player.
• 1991 – Xavier Henry, American professional basketball player
• 1992 – Thea Garrett, Maltese singer and songwriter.
• 1993 – Paul Pogba, French footballer
• 1995 – Guillermo Martínez Ayala, Mexican footballer
• 2000 – Kristian Kostov, Bulgarian-Russian singer.

Armed

• 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and political leader (born 100 BC)
• 220 – Cao Cao, great power in the later years of the Eastern Han dynasty kazana Chinese warlord and penultimate prime minister of the dynasty (b. 155)
• 493 – Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
• 963-II. Romanos, Byzantine emperor who reigned between 959 and 963 (born in 939)
• 1536 – Pargalı Damat İbrahim Pasha, Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier (b. 1493)
• 1833 – Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, German botanist and physician (b. 1766)
• 1842 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian-born composer who spent most of his professional life in France (b. 1760)
• 1849 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian Catholic cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1881 – Nikolai Sablin, Russian politician (born?)
• 1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, British Chief Engineer (b. 1819)
• 1918 – Marie-Juliette Olga Lili Boulanger known as Lili Boulanger, French composer of Russian origin (born in 1893)
• 1921 – Mehmed Talat Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier and one of the founders of Union and Progress (b. 1874)
• 1937 – Howard Phillips Lovecraft, American author (b. 1890)
• 1938 – Nikolai Bukharin, Soviet politician (born in 1888)
• 1939 – Mermaid Eftalya, Turkish singing artist and singer (b. 1891)
• 1941 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (born in 1864)
• 1942 – Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, music teacher (b. 1871)
• 1944 – Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
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• 1959 – Lester Young, American musician (born 1909)
• 1962 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Arthur Adamov, French-Russian writer (born in 1908)
• 1971 – Cevat Fehmi Başkut, Turkish journalist and playwright (born in 1905)
• 1972 – Ahmed Muradbegović, Bosnian writer, playwright and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (born in 1906)
• 1978 – Jerzy Hryniewski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1895)
• 1981 – René Clair, French director (born in 1898)
• 1981 – Yaşar Nabi Nayır, Turkish poet and writer (born in 1908)
• 1988 – Edita Morris, Swedish-American writer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Sadettin Öktenay, Turkish composer (born in 1930)
• 1995 – Mustafa Necati Karaer, Turkish writer, poet, autobiographer and critic (born in 1929)
• 1997 – Victor Vasarely, Franco-Hungarian painter (born in 1906)
• 1998 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Mengü Ertel, Turkish designer and art director (born in 1931)
• 2003 – Dame Thora Hird, English actress, comedian, presenter and author (b. 1911)
• 2004 – John Anthony Pople, English mathematician and chemist (born 1925)
• 2006 – George George Rallys, Greek politician (born 1918)
• 2007 – Stuart Rosenberg, American director (born in 1927)
• 2009 – Ron Silver, American actor (born in 1946)
• 2011 – Nate Dogg, born Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, is a Grammy-nominated American R&B/hip hop singer (born 1969)
• 2014 – David Brenner, American actor, comedian and author (born 1936)
• 2014 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, British journalist, foodie and TV presenter (born 1947)
• 2016 – Sylvia Anderson, English producer and actress (born 1927)
• 2016 – Ratu Seru Raveive Rabeni, Fijian rugby player (born 1978)
• 2017 – Ali Murat Daryal, professor of Turkish theology (born in 1931)
• 2018 – Mohamed Sayah, Tunisian politician (born in 1933)
• 2020 – Aytaç Yalman, Turkish soldier and commander of the Turkish Land Forces (born in 1940)
• 2020 – Suzy Delair, French actress and singer (born in 1917)
• 2020 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (born in 1927)

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