March 16

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March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews 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.
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.
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.
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 - Würzburg, 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.
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 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.
1997 - Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.
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.
2006 - On March 16th, Final Fantasy XII will be released in Japan. At least it's getting closer. Hopefully it will be released around Q3/Q4 in the US.
2880 - The predicted closest approach to Earth of near-Earth object (29075) 1950 DA which might impact Earth.

Births

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)
1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan, (b. 1846)
1829 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946)
1878 - Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1941)
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1897 - Conrad Nagel, American actor of the silent film era (d. 1970)
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, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics recipient (d. 1998)
1920 - Leo McKern, British actor (d. 2002)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician, (d. 1987)
1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
1927 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (d. 1967)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
1927 - Olga San Juan, comedienne of film & radio
1932 - Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005)
1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
1940 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1941 - Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, American country 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 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
1970 - Stephen Martin, Canadian livejournaler
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

Deaths

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar,Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1072 - Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen 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)
1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
1903 - Judge Roy Bean, American jurist and pioneer
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
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 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
1979 - Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)
1983 - Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (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)

Holidays and observances

Latvia - The controversial Latvia Legions is celebrated in Latvia, where about 140,000 men joined the Waffen SS National Legions during World War II, trying to defend Latvia. Since February 23, 2000, this day is no longer an official celebration day.
St. Urho's Day - the fictional patron saint of Finnish immigrants to the US, created by Richard Mattson in 1956
The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome