A weapons depot near Tirana, Albania is hit by multiple explosions, killing at least 11 people and injuring around 300. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7298341.stm (BBC News)
Tibet Autonomous Region authorities give protesters until March 17 to surrender. The Central Tibetan Administration government in exile reports 30 confirmed deaths. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7297911.stm (BBC News)
A gun factory explosion in Gërdec, Albania, kills more than 30. Over the following week, Albania, Kosovo, and some surrounding countries supply and support Gërdec's population with food, blood, etc.
Israel hands over Taba to Egypt, ending a seven-year territorial dispute.
Saturday, March 15, 1986
Hotel New World disaster: a six-story building collapses, trapping 50 people beneath the rubble 33 are killed.
Friday, March 15, 1985
Vice-President Jose Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill, the day before. Sarney would be become Brazils first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death 21 April.
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series "Live from the Met" both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's "La Boheme".
Vietnam War ndash My Lai massacre: American troops kill scores of civilians. The story will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
Monday, March 15, 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his We Shall Overcome speech.
Sunday, March 15, 1964
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) in Montreal.
Thursday, March 15, 1962
Évian Accords: France and Algeria sign an agreement in Évian-les-Bains ending the Algerian War.
Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin the Congo.
A German naval force shells a village in Samoa, destroying some American property three American warships enter the Samoan harbor and prepare to fire on the three German warships found there. Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German. A compulsory armistice is called because of the lack of warships.
Thursday, March 15, 1888
Start of the Sikkim Expedition. A British military expedition to expel the Tibetans from northern Sikkim.
Thursday, March 15, 1877
1877 Australia v. England series: The first Test cricket match is held between England and Australia.
Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of penal laws against Protestant nonconformists.ref name=Cassell's Chronology
Wednesday, March 6, 1493 (Julianian calendar)
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
Completion of Lincoln Cathedral in England. With the spire reaching around 525 feet (160 m) it becomes the world\'s tallest structure (surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held the record for almost 4,000 years), a record it holds until the spire is blown down in 1549.
A committee of 21 Englishbarons draw up a series of ordinances, which substitute ordainers for the King (Edward II) as the effective government of the country.
Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda, sister of Clovis I. He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians, Vandals and Visigoths. Establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms in the West.
Clovis I marries the Burgundian princess Clotilde, age 18, she is brought up in the Catholic faith and is the daughter of king Chilperic II. Her father is murdered in the same year by his brother Gundobad.
Odoacer is invited to a banquet organised in order to celebrate the peace treaty. During the festivities, Odoacer is killed by Theodoric the Great. His body is skillfully sliced in half in full view of his guests. A massacre of Odoacer's soldiers and supporters follows.
