Deep-water soloing

• ... that several climbers have drowned while deep-water soloing (example pictured), even though it is safer than free solo climbing?
• ... that John Allen Chau illegally travelled to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to convert its inhabitants to Christianity?
• ... that the Martin-Smith School of Music, according to one historian, was "one of the most important black musical institutions" in the United States?
• ... that Luca Gargano discovered thousands of barrels of aged rum in an abandoned Trinidadian distillery, sparking "Caroni mania"?
• ... that a 1980 Doctor Who serial was written by a seventeen-year-old fan of the show?
• ... that Annie Stainer "would appear to fly, by delicately and continuously undulating her arms as if they were remarkable wings" during her solo shows?
• ... that Shigeru Miyamoto told his coworkers "you guys are useless" after he received a prototype of Tomodachi Collection's character-creation system?
• ... that Eric Slover's wife blessed his dog tags with holy water before Operation Absolute Resolve?
• ... that A Place with the Pigs was based on a real-life World War II deserter who hid in a pigsty until 1985?

March 15: Ides of March; Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2026)

Empress Theodora

• 856 – Byzantine emperor Michael III overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora (pictured) to assume power for himself.
• 1783 – George Washington delivered a speech to Continental Army officers in Newburgh, New York, asking them to support the supremacy of the Congress of the Confederation, defusing a potential coup.
• 1874 – France and Vietnam signed the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
• 1921 – Talaat Pasha, the main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide, was assassinated by Soghomon Tehlirian.
• 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.