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March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap Year s). There are 290 days remaining.
Events
- 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem , replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
- 1190 - Crusade rs start to massacre the Jew s of York .
- 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.
- 1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1792 - King Gustav III Of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29 .
- 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
- 1812 - Battle Of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6 ) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War .
- 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 .
- 1818 - Battle Of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José De San Martín .
- 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel '' The Scarlet Letter '' is first published.
- 1855 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded.
- 1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas , replacing Sam Houston , who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy .
- 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of Antiseptic Surgery , in '' The Lancet ''.
- 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup , the oldest Football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington , London .
- 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos , the largest Bronze Age Archaeological Site on Crete .
- 1912 - Lawrence Oates , ill member of Scott 's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
- 1914 - Henriette Caillaux , wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro .
- 1916 - 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of Pancho Villa .
- 1924 - The Free Port of Fiume formally annexed by Mussolini's Fascist regime.
- 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 . Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht .
- 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia And Moravia a German Protectorate .
- 1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia Of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Of Iran
- 1942 - First V-2 Rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)
- ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
- 1945 - Würzburg , Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
- 1952 - In Cilaos , Réunion , 73 inches (1,870mm) of Rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
- 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.
- 1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead
- 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8 , the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle .
- , 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
- 1970 - Publication of complete New English Bible .
- 1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway
- 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
- 1976 - UK Prime Minister, Harold Wilson resigns.
- 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
- 1978 - Supertanker the Amoco Cadiz , split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany , resulting in the 5th-largest Oil Spill in history
- 1983 - Demolition of the Radio Tower Ismaning , the last radio tower in Germany built of Wood .
- 1984 - William Buckley , the CIA station chief in Beirut , Lebanon , is kidnapped by Islam ic 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 .
- and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of Conspiracy to defraud the United States .
- 1988 - ish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of Poison Gas and Nerve Agent s, killing thousands of people.
- 1993 - A Blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard Of 1993 ).
Births
- 1338 - Thomas De Beauchamp, 12th Earl Of Warwick (d. 1401 )
- 1445 - Johann Geiler Von Kaisersberg , Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510 )
- 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft , Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647 )
- 1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero , Dutch writer (d. 1618 )
- 1631 - René Le Bossu , French critic (d. 1680 )
- 1654 - Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist (d. 1704 )
- 1750 - Caroline Herschel , German-born English astronomer (d. 1848 )
- 1751 - James Madison , 4th President Of The United States (d. 1836 )
- 1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce , Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836 )
- 1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders , English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814 )
- 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm , German physicist (d. 1854 )
- 1794 - Ami Boué , Austrian geologist (d. 1881 )
- 1800 - Emperor Ninko Of Japan , (d. 1846 )
- 1805 - Peter Ernst Von Lasaulx , German philosopher and writer (d. 1861 )
- 1822 - Rosa Bonheur , French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899 )
- 1834 - James Hector , Scottish geologist (d. 1907 )
- 1839 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 )
- 1839 - John Butler Yeats , Northern Irish artist (d. 1922 )
- 1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi , Japanese industrialist (d. 1931 )
- 1851 - Martinus Beijerinck , Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931 )
- 1856 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph , called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879 )
- 1857 - Charles Harding Firth , British historian (d. 1936 )
- 1877 - Reza Pahlavi , Shah Of Iran (d. 1941 )
- 1878 - Clemens August Graf Von Galen , German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946 )
- 1889 - Reggie Walker , South African athlete (d. 1951 )
- 1890 - Solomon Mikhoels , Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948 )
- 1892 - César Vallejo , Peruvian poet (d. 1938 )
- 1892 - James Petrillo , leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984 )
- 1897 - Conrad Nagel , American actor (d. 1970 )
- 1901 - Edward Pawley , American actor (d. 1988 )
- 1902 - Leon Roppolo , American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943 )
- 1903 - Mike Mansfield , American politician, and diplomat (d. 2001 )
- 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt , German actress (d. 1977 )
- 1905 - Marlin Perkins , American naturalist (d. 1986 )
- 1906 - Henny Youngman , American comedian (d. 1998 )
- 1908 - René Daumal , French Surrealist writer (d. 1944 )
- 1911 - Josef Mengele , Nazi war criminal (d. 1979 )
- 1911 - Pierre Harmel , Belgian politician
- 1912 - Pat Nixon , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1993 )
- 1916 - Mercedes McCambridge , American actress (d. 2004 )
- 1917 - Samael Aun Weor , Columbian writer (d. 1977 )
- 1918 - Frederick Reines , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
- 1920 - Traudl Junge , Hitler's secretary (d. 2002 )
- 1920 - Leo McKern , British actor (d. 2002 )
- 1922 - Harding Lemay , television scriptwriter and playwright
- 1925 - Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the Contraceptive Pill (d. 2004 ).
- 1926 - Charles Goodell , American politician, (d. 1987 )
- 1926 - Jerry Lewis , American comedian
- 1927 - Vladimir Komarov , cosmonaut (d. 1967 )
- 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan , U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003 )
- 1927 - Olga San Juan , American comedian
- 1928 - Christa Ludwig , German mezzo-soprano
- 1932 - Don Blasingame , Major League Baseball and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005 )
- 1932 - Walter Cunningham , astronaut
- 1933 - Sandy Weill , American financier and philanthropist
- 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn , Governor-General Of Canada (d. 2002 )
- 1936 - Fred Neil , American singer-songwriter (d. 2001 )
- 1937 - Amos Tversky , Israeli psychologist (d. 1996 )
- 1939 - Carlos Bilardo , Argetinian football coach and player
- 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian film director
- 1941 - Robert Guéï , military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002 )
- 1941 - Chuck Woolery , American game show host
- 1942 - James Soong , Taiwanese politician
- 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker , American musician
- 1948 - Margaret Weis , American 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 , American free software activist
- 1954 - Jimmy Nail , British actor and singer
- 1954 - Nancy Wilson , American guitarist, singer, and actress ( Heart )
- 1955 - Jiro Watanabe , Japanese boxer
- 1955 - Bruno Barreto , Brazilian film director
- 1958 - Jorge Ramos , Mexican TV anchor
- 1959 - Flavor Flav , American rapper
- 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg , Prime Minister Of Norway
- 1961 - Todd McFarlane , Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
- 1963 - Kevin Smith , New Zealand actor (d. 2002 )
- 1964 - Patty Griffin , American singer and songwriter
- 1964 - Gore Verbinski , American movie director
- 1967 - Lauren Graham , American actress
- 1971 - Alan Tudyk , American actor
- 1980 - Todd Heap , American football player
- 1981 - Andrew Bree , Irish swimmer
- 1986 - Ken Doane , WWE Wrestler
- 1987 - Tiiu Kuik , Estonian model
- 1989 - Theo Walcott , English football player
Deaths
- 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar , Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC )
- 455 - Valentinian III , Roman Emperor (b. 419 )
- 1037 - Robert I , Archbishop Of Rouen
- 1072 - Adalbert Of Hamburg , German archbishop
- 1322 - Humphrey De Bohun, 4th Earl Of Hereford , English soldier (b. 1276 )
- 1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl Of Somerset (b. 1373 )
- 1457 - László Hunyadi , Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433 )
- 1485 - Anne Neville , wife of Richard III Of England (b. 1456 )
- 1559 - Anthony St. Leger , Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496 )
- 1649 - Jean De Brébeuf , French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593 )
- 1679 - John Leverett , Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616 )
- 1721 - James Craggs The Elder , English politician (b. 1657 )
- 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Italian composer (b. 1710 )
- 1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth , American President of Harvard University (b. 1670 )
- 1738 - George Bähr , German architect (b. 1666 )
- 1747 - Christian Augustus Of Anhalt-Zerbst , father of Catherine II Of Russia (b. 1690 )
- 1888 - Hippolyte Carnot , French statesman (b. 1801 )
- 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley , British artist (b. 1872 )
- 1899 - Joseph Medill business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune , mayor of Chicago, Illinois , (b. 1823 )
- 1903 - Judge Roy Bean , American jurist and pioneer
- 1914 - Charles Albert Gobat , Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843 )
- 1926 - Sergeant Stubby , Decorated war dog from World War I
- 1930 - Miguel Primo De Rivera , Spanish dictator (b. 1870 )
- 1935 - John James Richard Macleod , Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876 )
- 1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch , Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886 )
- 1936 - Marguerite Durand , French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864 )
- 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858 )
- 1945 - Börries Von Münchhausen , German poet (b. 1874 )
- 1957 - Constantin Brancusi , Romanian sculptor (b. 1876 )
- 1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer (b. 1895 )
- 1970 - Tammi Terrell , American singer (b. 1946 )
- 1971 - Thomas Dewey , American presidential candidate (b. 1902 )
- 1975 - Richard W. DeKorte , American politician (b. 1936 )
- 1975 - T-Bone Walker , American musician (b. 1910 )
- 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917 )
- 1979 - Jean Monnet , French politician (b. 1888 )
- 1980 - Tamara De Lempicka , Polish-born painter (b. 1898 )
- 1983 - Arthur Godfrey , American actor and television host (b. 1903 )
- 1984 - John Hoagland , American photographer (b. 1947 )
- 1992 - Yves Rocard , French physicist (b. 1903 )
- 1996 - Charlie Barnett , American actor (b. 1954 )
- 1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918 )
- 2001 - Norma MacMillan , American voice actress (b. 1921 )
- 2003 - Rachel Corrie , American political activist (b. 1979 )
- 2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson , father of Sarah, Duchess Of York , (b. 1931 )
- 2004 - Vilém Tauský , Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910 )
- 2005 - Todd Bell , American football player (b. 1958 )
- 2005 - Ralph Erskine , British architect ( Byker Wall ) (b. 1914 )
- 2005 - Anthony George , American TV actor (b. 1921 )
- 2005 - Allan Hendrickse , South African politician (b. 1927 )
- 2005 - Dick Radatz , baseball player (b. 1937 )
Holidays and observances
External links
March 15 - March 17 - February 16 - April 16 -- Listing Of All Days
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