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March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (born in 1912) | |
March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (born in 1946) | |
March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (born in 1942) | |
March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | G. David Low, American astronaut (born in 1956) | David Low Quotes |
March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (born in 1922) | |
March 16th, 1998 (March 16 1998) | Event | Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. | |
March 16th, 1998 (March 16 1998) | Death | Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1918) | |
March 16th, 1988 (March 16 1988) | Event | Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. | |
March 16th, 1988 (March 16 1988) | Event | Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injured about 10000 people. | |
March 16th, 1978 (March 16 1978) | Event | Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists and is later killed by his captors. | |
March 16th, 1978 (March 16 1978) | Event | Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history. | |
March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers: men, women, and children are killed by American troops. | |
March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Event | General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. | |
March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Birth | Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher | |
March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Death | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (born in 1895) | |
March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Death | Gunnar Ekelof, Swedish poet and writer (born in 1907) | |
March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Event | The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company s founding. | |
March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Birth | Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor | |
March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Birth | Kate Worley, American comic book writer (died in 2004) | |
March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Michael Bruce, American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper Quotes |
March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Margaret Weis, American author | |
March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Richard Desjardins, Quebec singer, songwriter and film director | |
March 16th, 1928 (March 16 1928) | Birth | Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano | |
March 16th, 1928 (March 16 1928) | Birth | Karlheinz Bohm, Austrian actor | |
March 16th, 1918 (March 16 1918) | Birth | Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1998) | |
March 16th, 1908 (March 16 1908) | Birth | Rene Daumal, French Surrealist writer (died in 1944) | |
March 16th, 1908 (March 16 1908) | Birth | Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (died in 1966) | |
March 16th, 1898 (March 16 1898) | Death | Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (born in 1872) | |
March 16th, 1888 (March 16 1888) | Death | Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (born in 1801) | |
March 16th, 1878 (March 16 1878) | Birth | Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (died in 1946) | |
March 16th, 1818 (March 16 1818) | Event | Battle of Cancha RayadaSpanish forces defeat Chileans under Jose de San Martin. | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
March 16th, 1738 (March 16 1738) | Death | George Bahr, German architect (born in 1666) | |
March 16th, 1338 (March 16 1338) | Birth | Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (died in 1401) | |