Some interesting events on March 15. Signs of despair but hope too.
1939 German troops occupied Czechoslovakia.
1945 Soviet Forces begin an offensive to push Germans out of Upper Silesia.
1990 Mikhail Gorbochev is elected first President of the Soviet Union.
2019 Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries strike to protest climate change.
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