March 15 Events

2011 Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council
2011 Florida's Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, and County commissioner Natacha Seijas are ousted in recall elections
2010 According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
1998 "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater New York City
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs. Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20'
1991 Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner
1987 New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater New York City
1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick