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Events on March 15

• 1493 After their two caravels Niña and Pinta had been separated by a storm on their return journey from their first voyage of discovery, Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón reached the Spanish home port of Palos de la Frontera on the same day.
• 1906 Henry Royce and Charles Rolls, the business partners who had determined to build cars, register their newly founded company Rolls-Royce Limited in Manchester.
• 1920 In the German Empire, the largest general strike to date takes place in reaction to the Kapp Putsch. 12 million people follow an appeal by various organizations and parties. In the west, the Ruhr uprising breaks out.
• 1936 The Austrian Sepp “Bubi” Bradl achieves the first successful ski jump beyond 100 m with a distance of 101 m in Planica, Slovenia.
• 1939 Troops of the German Wehrmacht occupy the remaining parts of Bohemia and Moravia, which are declared the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the following day. The Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
• 1951 The Federal Criminal Police Office is officially founded in Wiesbaden.
• 1961 As the first major German city, Kassel introduces parking with parking discs in the city center.
• 1972 Francis Ford Coppola's feature film The Godfather, based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo, starring Marlon Brando in the lead role and Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton in other roles, premieres in the USA.
• 1978 Janosch's illustrated children's book Oh, How Beautiful Panama is published. In 1979, the author receives the German Youth Literature Prize for it.
• 1985 The computer company Symbolics registers symbolics.com, the first .com domain in the history of the internet.
• 1999 Following corruption allegations against Commissioner Édith Cresson, the members of the European Commission under Commission President Jacques Santer step down. Vice President Manuel Marín is tasked with forming a new Commission.
• 2019 At least 1.7 million students worldwide stay away from classes to demonstrate for better climate protection under the motto “Fridays for Future”.

Born on March 15

• 1854 Emil von Behring, German bacteriologist and serologist, Nobel laureate
• 1900 Ernst Neufert, German architect, Bauhaus teacher, author of Architectural Design Theory
• 1900 Fritz Walter, German sports official
• 1922 Horst Wendlandt, German film producer
• 1932 Alan LaVern Bean, American astronaut
• 1950 Kurt Koch, Swiss priest and theologian, Bishop of Basel, cardinal
• 1961 Max Julen, Swiss ski racer
• 1972 Mark Hoppus, American bassist and singer
• 1972 Holger Stromberg, German chef, television cook and author
• 1980 Camilla Renschke, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „15. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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