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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.
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 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 - 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.
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 )
1750 - Caroline Herschel , a German-born English astronomer , (d. 1848 )
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 - René François 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 :
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 :
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 :
1929 - Nadja Tiller , German actress
1932 :
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn , former Governor-General of Canada , (d. 2002 )
1940 :
1942 :
1943 - Arnold Raphel , American diplomat (d. 1988 )
1948 - Margaret Weis , science fiction author
1949 :
1950 - Kate Nelligan , Canadian actress
1952 - Philippe Kahn , French/American entrepreneur
1953 :
1954 - Nancy Wilson , guitarist, singer, actress (Heart )
1955 - Jiro Watanabe , Japanese boxing world champion
1959 :
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 Lagerlöf , Swedish writer, (b. 1858 )
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen , 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
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
External links
March 15 - March 17 - February 16 - April 16 -- listing of all days
