Brain News Service (publisher) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1922 Egypt gained nominal independence from the United Kingdom, and Sultan Fuad I became King of Egypt.
IndependenceOn this day — March 15 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Brain News Service (publisher) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1922 
Parliament of South Africa; vector by Denelson83 — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1961 South Africa announced it would withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations after criticism of its apartheid policies.
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1978 Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce ending the Ethio-Somali (Ogaden) War.
PoliticsJoseph Jenkins Roberts, American-born statesman who became the first President of Liberia, was born.
Birth
Metsavend — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and Booker Prize-winning novelist, was born.
Birth