Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15
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March 15: Ides of March; National Day in Hungary (1848); Hōnen Matsuri in Japan
- 1820 – Primarily due to its vulnerability to foreign invasions, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine was given its own U.S. statehood.
- 1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov (German infantrymen pictured).
- 1972 – The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released.
- 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com.