THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 15
March 15 in history
What happened on March 15: 5 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 44 BC, 1917, 1939, 1969 and 1973, each linked to the map that shows it.
44 BC
The Ides of March. Caesar is stabbed twenty-three times at a meeting of the Senate — by men convinced they are saving the Republic they are about to bury.
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— February Revolution
8-15 Mar 1917 — Bread queues in Petrograd become a general strike; the garrison mutinies rather than fire. In one week the Romanov dynasty, three centuries old, is gone. The Provisional Government chooses to keep fighting — a fatal choice.
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— Occupation of Prague
15 Mar 1939 — Hitler tears up Munich and seizes the rest of the Czech lands. Appeasement dies here.
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— Sino-Soviet border conflict
2–15 Mar 1969 — Soviet and Chinese troops kill each other over a frozen river island; Moscow sounds out Washington about striking China’s nuclear sites. The communist world is now two rivals — and both need America.
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— Nebraska rescinds the ERA
15 Mar 1973 — Nebraska, which ratified within a week of Congress, votes to withdraw its ratification. Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky and South Dakota follow; whether a state may take back a ratification is never settled in court.
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