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March 16March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining. Events - 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
- 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands.
- 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
- 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
- 1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
- 1872 - The first ever FA Cup Final is played and is won by Wanderers F.C.
- 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
- 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
- 1945 - Wrzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
- 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
- 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
- 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
- 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
- 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
- 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
- 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
- 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- 1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
- 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
- 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
- 2002- Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
- 2880 - The predicted closest approach to Earth of Near-Earth object 1950 DA which might impact Earth.
Births - 1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618)
- 1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States, (d. 1836)
- 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law, (d. 1854)
- 1829 - Ren Franois Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, (d. 1907)
- 1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist, (d. 1907)
- 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop of Mnster and cardinal, (d. 1946)
- 1878 - Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (d. 1941)
- 1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
- 1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1902 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist, (d. 1943)
- 1903 - Mike Mansfield, American politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
- 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress, (d. 1977)
- 1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)
- 1906 - Henny Youngman, American comedian, (d. 1998)
- 1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady, (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics), (d. 1998)
- 1920 - Leo McKern, British actor (d. 2002)
- 1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
- 1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut, (d. 1967)
- 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York, (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Nadja Tiller, German actress
- 1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
- 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada, (d. 2002)
- 1940 - Chuck Woolery, game show host
- 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
- 1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
- 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, American country musician
- 1943 - Arnold Raphel, American diplomat (d. 1988)
- 1948 - Margaret Weis, science fiction author
- 1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
- 1949 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
- 1950 - Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
- 1952 - Philippe Kahn, French/American entrepreneur
- 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- 1953 - Richard Stallman, Free Software activist & founder of GNU
- 1954 - Nancy Wilson, guitarist, singer, actress (Heart)
- 1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
- 1959 - Flavor Flav, rap musician
- 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- 1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
- 1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer, songrwriter
- 1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
- 1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
- 1990 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim, (d. 1993)
- 1992 - Carlie Brucia, kidnap/murder victim, (d. 2004)
Deaths - 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar ,second Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (b. 46 B.C.E.)
- 455 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor, (b. 419)
- 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, (b. 1710)
- 1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
- 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist, (b. 1872)
- 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, jurist, Old West pioneer, (b. c. 1825)
- 1940 - Selma Lagerlf, Swedish writer, (b. 1858)
- 1945 - Brries von Mnchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
- 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor, (b. 1876)
- 1970 - Tammi Terrell, American Motown singer
- 1971 - Thomas Dewey, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948, (b. 1902)
- 1975 - T-Bone Walker, musician, (b. 1910)
- 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
- 1983 - Arthur Godfrey, American actor, television host
- 2000 - Durward Kirby, American television announcer
- 2001 - Norma MacMillan, American voice actress
- 2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
- 2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York
Holidays and observances External links
March 15 - March 17 - February 16 - April 16 -- listing of all days
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