Historical timeline for March 15

Four members of a Palestinian family are shot dead in Tammun by the Israeli military.

The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.

Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.

Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.

Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings, which remains the deadliest terror attack in New Zealand history.

Beginning of the Syrian revolution.

Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.

Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union.

Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.

Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.

Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells the U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.

The Iranian oil industry is nationalized.

World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies.

Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.

Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.

The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.

After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.