Historical Events on March 15

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Here are some historical events that took place on March 15:

44 BC - The assassination of Julius Caesar: Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators led by Brutus and Cassius on the Ides of March.

1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas.

1781 - The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: American Revolutionary War - British forces under General Cornwallis defeated American forces under General Nathanael Greene at Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina.

1820 - Maine became the 23rd state of the United States.

1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the throne, marking the end of the Romanov dynasty.

1939 - Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the Munich Agreement.

1972 - "The Godfather," directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the novel by Mario Puzo, premiered in New York City.

1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation.

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

2003 - Hu Jintao became the President of the People's Republic of China.

2011 - Beginning of the Syrian Civil War: Protests against President Bashar al-Assad began in Syria.

2019 - A gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people and injuring 49 others in what became known as the Christchurch mosque shootings.

These are just a few significant events from history that took place on March 15th.