March, 16th in History

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Events

Saturday 16, 2880:
The predicted closest approach to Earth of near-Earth object (29075) 1950 DA which might impact Earth.

Thursday 16, 2006:
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.

Sunday 16, 2003:
Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.

Saturday 16, 2002:
Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Sunday 16, 1997:
Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.

Wednesday 16, 1994:
Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Tuesday 16, 1993:
A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).

Wednesday 16, 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.

Saturday 16, 1985:
Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.

Friday 16, 1984:
William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.

Wednesday 16, 1983:
Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.

Thursday 16, 1978:
Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.

Thursday 16, 1972:
The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.

Sunday 16, 1969:
A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155

Saturday 16, 1968:
Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.

Friday 16, 1962:
A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.

Friday 16, 1956:
1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.

Friday 16, 1945:
Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.

Saturday 16, 1935:
Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

Tuesday 16, 1926:
Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

Friday 16, 1900:
Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.

Saturday 16, 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.

Saturday 16, 1867:
First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.

Saturday 16, 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.

Saturday 16, 1850:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.

Thursday 16, 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.

Tuesday 16, 1802:
The United States Military Academy West Point is established.

Friday 16, 1792:
King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

Tuesday 16, 1660:
The Long Parliament disbands.

Tuesday 16, 1621:
Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

Wednesday 16, 1521:
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

Friday 16, 1190:
Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-march/on-this-day.html


People born on March 16

1980:
Todd Heap, American football player (b: March 16, 1980) (Biography of Todd Heap)

1971:
Alan Tudyk, American actor (b: March 16, 1971) (Biography of Alan Tudyk)

1967:
Lauren Graham, American actress (b: March 16, 1967) (Biography of Lauren Graham)

1964:
Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter (b: March 16, 1964) (Biography of Patty Griffin)

1963:
Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b: March 16, 1963 ; d: February 15, 2002) (Biography of Kevin Smith (actor))

1959:
Flavor Flav, American rapper (b: March 16, 1959) (Biography of Flavor Flav)
Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway (b: March 16, 1959) (Biography of Jens Stoltenberg)

1955:
Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer (b: March 16, 1955) (Biography of Jiro Watanabe)

1954:
Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart) (b: March 16, 1954) (Biography of Nancy Wilson (guitarist))
Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer (b: March 16, 1954) (Biography of Jimmy Nail)

1953:
Isabelle Huppert, French actress (b: March 16, 1953) (Biography of Isabelle Huppert)
Richard Stallman, American free software activist (b: March 16, 1953) (Biography of Richard Stallman)

1952:
Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur (b: March 16, 1952) (Biography of Philippe Kahn)

1950:
Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress (b: March 16, 1950) (Biography of Kate Nelligan)

1949:
Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor (b: March 16, 1949) (Biography of Erik Estrada)
Victor Garber, Canadian actor (b: March 16, 1949) (Biography of Victor Garber)

1948:
Margaret Weis, American author (b: March 16, 1948) (Biography of Margaret Weis)

1942:
James Soong, Taiwanese politician (b: March 16, 1942) (Biography of James Soong)
Jerry Jeff Walker, American country musician (b: March 16, 1942) (Biography of Jerry Jeff Walker)

1941:
Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b: March 16, 1941 ; d: September 19, 2002) (Biography of Robert Guéï)

1940:
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (b: March 16, 1940) (Biography of Bernardo Bertolucci)
Chuck Woolery, American game show host (b: March 16, 1940) (Biography of Chuck Woolery)

1934:
Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b: March 16, 1934 ; d: December 18, 2002) (Biography of Ray Hnatyshyn)

1932:
Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball and Japanese baseball manager (b: March 16, 1932) (Biography of Don Blasingame)
Walter Cunningham, astronaut (b: March 16, 1932) (Biography of Walter Cunningham)

1928:
Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (b: March 16, 1928) (Biography of Christa Ludwig)

1927:
Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b: March 16, 1927 ; d: April 24, 1967) (Biography of Vladimir Komarov)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (b: March 16, 1927 ; d: March 26, 2003) (Biography of Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
Olga San Juan, comedienne of film & radio (b: March 16, 1927) (Biography of Olga San Juan)

1926:
Charles Goodell, American politician, (b: March 16, 1926 ; d: January 21, 1987) (Biography of Charles Goodell)
Jerry Lewis, American comedian (b: March 16, 1926) (Biography of Jerry Lewis)

1920:
Leo McKern, British actor (b: March 16, 1920 ; d: July 23, 2002) (Biography of Leo McKern)

1918:
Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics recipient (b: March 16, 1918 ; d: August 26, 1998) (Biography of Frederick Reines)

1912:
Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b: March 16, 1912 ; d: June 22, 1993) (Biography of Pat Nixon)

1911:
Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b: March 16, 1911 ; d: February 7, 1979) (Biography of Josef Mengele)

1906:
Henny Youngman, American comedian (b: March 16, 1906 ; d: February 24, 1998) (Biography of Henny Youngman)

1905:
Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (b: March 16, 1905) (Biography of Elisabeth Flickenschildt)

1903:
Mike Mansfield, American politician, diplomat (b: March 16, 1903 ; d: October 5, 2001) (Biography of Mike Mansfield)

1902:
Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (b: March 16, 1902 ; d: October 5, 1943) (Biography of Leon Roppolo)

1901:
Edward Pawley, American actor (b: March 16, 1901) (Biography of Edward Pawley)

1897:
Conrad Nagel, American actor of the silent film era (b: March 16, 1897) (Biography of Conrad Nagel)

1889:
Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b: March 16, 1889 ; d: November 5, 1951) (Biography of Reggie Walker)

1878:
Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (b: March 16, 1878) (Biography of Clemens August Graf von Galen)
Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b: March 16, 1878) (Biography of Reza Pahlavi)

1834:
James Hector, Scottish geologist (b: March 16, 1834 ; d: August 16, 1907) (Biography of James Hector)

1829:
René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: March 16, 1829 ; d: September 6, 1907) (Biography of Sully Prudhomme)

1800:
Emperor Ninko of Japan, (b. 1846) (b: March 16, 1800 ; d: February 21, 1846) (Biography of Emperor Ninko of Japan)

1789:
Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (b: March 16, 1789) (Biography of Georg Simon Ohm)

1774:
Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (b: March 16, 1774 ; d: July 19, 1814) (Biography of Matthew Flinders)

1751:
James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b: March 16, 1751 ; d: June 28, 1836) (Biography of James Madison)

1750:
Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (b: March 16, 1750 ; d: January 9, 1848) (Biography of Caroline Herschel)

1654:
Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b: March 16, 1654 ; d: November 4, 1704) (Biography of Andreas Acoluthus)

1631:
René Le Bossu, French critic (b: March 16, 1631 ; d: March 14, 1680) (Biography of René Le Bossu)

1585:
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b: March 16, 1585 ; d: August 23, 1618) (Biography of Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero)

1581:
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (b: March 16, 1581 ; d: May 21, 1647) (Biography of Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft)

1453:
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b: March 16, 1453 ; d: December 2, 1515) (Biography of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba)

1445:
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b: March 16, 1445 ; d: March 10, 1510) (Biography of Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-march/births.html

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People who died on March 16

2003:
Rachel Corrie (d: March 16, 2003) (Biography of Rachel Corrie)

1996:
Charlie Barnett, American actor (b: September 23, 1954 ; d: March 16, 1996) (Biography of Charlie Barnett)

1983:
Arthur Godfrey, American television host (b: August 31, 1903 ; d: March 16, 1983) (Biography of Arthur Godfrey)

1979:
Jean Monnet, French internationalist (b: November 9, 1889 ; d: March 16, 1979) (Biography of Jean Monnet)

1977:
Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b: December 6, 1917 ; d: March 16, 1977) (Biography of Kamal Jumblatt)

1975:
T-Bone Walker, American singer (b: May 28, 1910 ; d: March 16, 1975) (Biography of T-Bone Walker)

1971:
Thomas Dewey, American politician (b: March 24, 1902 ; d: March 16, 1971) (Biography of Thomas Dewey)

1970:
Tammi Terrell, American singer (b: April 29, 1945 ; d: March 16, 1970) (Biography of Tammi Terrell)

1968:
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b: April 3, 1895 ; d: March 16, 1968) (Biography of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco)

1957:
Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b: February 19, 1876 ; d: March 16, 1957) (Biography of Constantin Brancusi)

1945:
Börries von Münchhausen (d: March 16, 1945) (Biography of Börries von Münchhausen)

1940:
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b: November 20, 1858 ; d: March 16, 1940) (Biography of Selma Lagerlöf)

1903:
Roy Bean (d: March 16, 1903) (Biography of Roy Bean)

1898:
Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (b: August 21, 1872 ; d: March 16, 1898) (Biography of Aubrey Beardsley)

1738:
George Bähr, German architect (b: March 15, 1666 ; d: March 16, 1738) (Biography of George Bähr)

1737:
Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (b: February 28, 1670 ; d: March 16, 1737) (Biography of Benjamin Wadsworth)

1736:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b: January 4, 1710 ; d: March 16, 1736) (Biography of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)

1721:
James Craggs the Elder (d: March 16, 1721) (Biography of James Craggs the Elder)

1679:
John Leverett (d: March 16, 1679) (Biography of John Leverett)

1649:
Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b: March 25, 1593 ; d: March 16, 1649) (Biography of Jean de Brébeuf)

1559:
Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland) (d: March 16, 1559) (Biography of Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland))

1485:
Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b: June 11, 1456 ; d: March 16, 1485) (Biography of Anne Neville)

455:
Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b: July 2, 419 ; d: March 16, 455) (Biography of Valentinian III)

37:
Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar (d: March 16, 37) (Biography of Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-march/deaths.html