March 16 - Definition


March 16 - Definition

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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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.
1945 - Wuerzburg, was destroyed to 90% by British bombers in only 20 minutes (5000 died)
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
1972 - 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 - 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 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
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.

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 Near-Earth object 1950 DA approaches Earth, and there is concern that it might impact Earth.

The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
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.

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