Love the look and scent of fresh flowers? Attend the Indiana flower and patio show, happening every year around this date to the 20th of March.
Find out more things that have happened before on this day, March 15. Below are some historic events you should check!
- 1892 – Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator, which was the first escalator.
- 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
- 1919 – The American Legion was founded in Paris.
- 1934 – Henry Ford restored the $5 a day wage.
- 1935 – Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda banned four Berlin newspapers.
- 1938 – The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia.
- 1949 – Clothes rationing in Great Britain ended nearly four years after the end of World War II.
- 1951 – The Persian parliament voted to nationalize the oil industry.
- 1956 -Whipper Billy Watson beat Lou Thesz in Toronto, becoming the NWA wrestling champion.
- 1960 -Ten nations met in Geneva to discuss disarmament.
- 1968 -The U.S. mint stopped the practice of buying and selling gold.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II published his first encyclical “Redemptor Hominis.”
- 1985 -In Brazil, two decades of military rule came to an end with the installation of a civilian government.
- 1990 -In Iraq, British journalist Farzad Bazoft was hanged for spying.
- 1990 -The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.
- 1991 -4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King.
- 1996 -The aviation firm Fokker NV collapsed.
- 1998 -More than 15,000 ethnic Albanians marched in Yugoslavia to demand independence for Kosovo.
- 2003 – Hu Jintao becomes President of the People’s Republic of China.
- 2017 -Fashion house Givenchy, appointed its first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller.