March 16

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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.

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  • 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 is first published.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 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.
  • 1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
  • 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.
  • 1997 - Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.
  • 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 Iraq war.
  • 2006 - Planned release date of the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy XII in Japan.
  • 2880 - The predicted closest approach to Earth of near-Earth object (29075) 1950 DA which might impact Earth.

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