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March 16

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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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

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 - West Point is established.
• 1815 - Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is published for the first time.
• 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos 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.
• 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super-Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean killing 107
• 1968 - Vietnam War: My Lai massacre American troops kill scores of women and children.
• 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
• 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
• 1984 - CIA station chief stationed in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
• 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would later 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 - Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000
• 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184.
• 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.
• 2002- Closing Cerimonies of theWinter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• 2003 - Largest co-ordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
• 2880 - A 1/300 probability prediction that Asteroid 1950DA will hit Earth causing an extinction-level event

Births

• 1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States, (d. 1836)
• 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law, (d. 1854)
• 1829 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, (d. 1907)
• 1834 - James Hector, geologist, (d. 1907)
• 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Münster and cardinal, (d. 1946)
• 1878 - Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (d. 1941)
• 1902 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist, (d. 1943)
• 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, actress, (d. 1977)
• 1906 - Henny Youngman, comedian, (d. 1998)
• 1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, (d. 1979)
• 1912 - Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady, (d. 1993)
• 1918 - Frederick Reines, physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics), (d. 1998)
• 1920 - Leo McKern, actor, (d. 2002)
• 1926 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
• 1926 - James N. Miller, microbiologist
• 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut, (d. 1967)
• 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York, (d. 2003)
• 1929 - Nadja Tiller, actress
• 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada, (d. 2002)
• 1941 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director
• 1942 - James Soong, politician
• 1949 - Erik Estrada, actor
• 1949 - Victor Garber, actor
• 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
• 1953 - Richard Stallman, Free Software activist & founder of GNU
• 1954 - Nancy Wilson, guitarist, singer, actress
• 1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
• 1959 - Flavor Flav, rap musician
• 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
• 1990 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim, (d. 1993)
• 1992 - Carlie Brucia, kidnap/murder victim, (d. 2004)

Deaths

• 455 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor, (b. 419)
• 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer, (b. 1710)
• 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist, (b. 1872)
• 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, jurist, Old West pioneer, (b. c. 1825)
• 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, writer, (b. 1858)
• 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, (b. 1876)
• 1970 - Tammi Terrell, 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)
• 2003 - Rachel Corrie, International Solidarity Movement member, (b. 1979)

Holidays and observances

• The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
• The controversial Latvia Legions is celebrated in Latvia, where about 140,000 mens joined the Waffen SS National Legions during the World War II, trying to defend Latvia. This day is since the february 23 2000 no longer an official celebration day.

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