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Events

597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
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 United States Military Academy is established.
1812 - Battle of Badajoz (1812) (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 - William I of the Netherlands of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself Dutch monarchy of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarchy in the the Netherlands.
1818 - Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1855 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded.
1861 - Edward Clark (governor) became List of Governors of Texas of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America.
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 (soccer) 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 List of archaeological sites sorted by country on Crete.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
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 Benito Mussolini fascism regime.
1926 - Rocket#Modern rocketry: Robert Goddard (scientist) 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 Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
1942 - Rocket#Modern rocketry: First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)
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.
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.
1958 - Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Ford Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Lockheed 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.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
1968 - General Motors releases its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
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 terrorists in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
1978 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits 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 Transmitter Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
1984 - William Francis Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry A. 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 (crime) 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.
1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
1996 - Göran Persson is elected leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
1996 - Dexter's Laboratory begins airing on Cartoon Network.
1997 - Sandline affair - On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International
1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global Protests against the 2003 Iraq war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.

Births

1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 - Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
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 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 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1907)
1839 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
1857 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1877 - Reza Shah 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)
1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1898 - Viktor Chaim Blerot, French/Swedish philosopher (d. 1972)
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)
1906 - Francisco Ayala (novelist), Spanish writer
1908 - René Daumal, French Surrealist writer (d. 1944)
1908 - Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966)
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, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1998)
1920 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
1920 - John Addison, British composer (d. 1998)
1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1922 - Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1927 - Vladimir Komarov, Soviet 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
1928 - Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1930 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001)
1931 - Betty Johnson, American singer
1932 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1932 - Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1936 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
1940 - Jan Pronk, Dutch politician
1941 - Robert Guéï, 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
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist
1946 - Michael Basman, English chess master
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1947 - Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
1948 - Michael Owen Bruce , American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1948 - Richard Desjardins, Quebec singer, songwriter and film director
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1949 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
1950 - Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
1951 - Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
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 (guitarist), American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart (band))
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
1960 - Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1961 - Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1963 - Kevin Smith (actor), New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Gore Verbinski, American movie director
1964 - Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist
1965 - Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer
1965 - Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1974 - Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Nick Spano, American actor
1976 - Abraham Núñez (baseball infielder), Dominican baseball player
1977 - Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler
1979 - Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
1983 - Brandon League, American baseball player
1984 - Levi Brown, American football player
1985 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
1986 - Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English writer
1990 - James Bulger, British murder victim (d. 1993)
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer
1994 - David Herlocker, American basketball player

Deaths

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor
1037 - Robert I Archbishop of Rouen, 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, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1559 - Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland), Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1649 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1620 - John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torture
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, 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)
1890 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 - Samuel F. Miller (US politician), American politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
1899 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1876)
1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1858)
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
1968 - Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (b. 1907)
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)
1983 - Fred Rose (politician), Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1992 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (b. 1919)
1993 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
1996 - Charlie Barnett (actor), American actor (b. 1954)
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
1999 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
2003 - 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 (architect), 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, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 - Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi test cricket player (b. 1984)
2007 - Howard Lasher, American Democrat politician (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

Latvia - The controversial Latvian Legion 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 Roman mythology

Liturgical feasts

Abban of Magheranoidhe Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
Abban of New Ross
Heribert of Cologne (died 1021)
Saint Agapitus
Saint Benedicta (+1260)
Saint Eusebia (+680)

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

THURSDAY, MARCH 16
Men's preliminary games - Fiji v Canada, Scotland v Niue, New Zealand v Wales, Kenya v Namibia, South Africa v Tonga, Samoa v Uganda, England v Cook Islands, Australia v Sri Lanka ...

March 16 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year.

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Mid-East leaders 'to hold summit'
An unnamed Palestinian official was quoted as saying the summit is expected to take place on 16 March. Israeli media said an agenda for the meeting between Ariel Sharon and Ahmed ...

BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack
Thousands of people die in a poison gas attack in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja. ... Thousands of people are reported to have been killed and many others injured in a poison ...

Australia - March 16
Lewis Hamilton took victory - and a hefty points lead over Kimi Raikkonen - with a flawless performance that saw him finish ahead of Heidfeld and Rosberg... Felipe Massa silenced ...

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Work - March 10 - March 16
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