March 16 Events |
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| March 16th, 2006 (March 16 2006) | Event | The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Event | Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. | |
| March 16th, 2003 (March 16 2003) | Event | The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war. | |
| 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, 1997 (March 16 1997) | Event | Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International. | |
| March 16th, 1995 (March 16 1995) | Event | Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. | |
| 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, 1985 (March 16 1985) | Event | Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. | |
| March 16th, 1984 (March 16 1984) | Event | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity. | |
| March 16th, 1983 (March 16 1983) | Event | Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood. | |
| 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, 1976 (March 16 1976) | Event | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons. | |
| March 16th, 1971 (March 16 1971) | Event | Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway. | |
| 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, 1966 (March 16 1966) | Event | Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. | |
| March 16th, 1963 (March 16 1963) | Event | Mount Agung erupts on Bali, as 11,000 die. | |
| March 16th, 1962 (March 16 1962) | Event | A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing. | |
| 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, 1952 (March 16 1952) | Event | In Cilaos, Reunion, 1,870mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. | |
| March 16th, 1950 (March 16 1950) | Event | Communist Czechoslovakia s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country. | |
| March 16th, 1945 (March 16 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. | |
| March 16th, 1945 (March 16 1945) | Event | Wurzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. | |
| March 16th, 1943 (March 16 1943) | Event | The Royal Navy Isles Class Trawler HMS Campobello Sinks in the Atlantic. | |
| March 16th, 1942 (March 16 1942) | Event | History of Rocketry: The first V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff). | |
| March 16th, 1939 (March 16 1939) | Event | From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. | |
| March 16th, 1939 (March 16 1939) | Event | Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. | |
| March 16th, 1935 (March 16 1935) | Event | Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| March 16th, 1926 (March 16 1926) | Event | History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. | |
| March 16th, 1924 (March 16 1924) | Event | The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini s fascist regime. | |
| March 16th, 1916 (March 16 1916) | Event | The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. | |
| March 16th, 1912 (March 16 1912) | Event | Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott s South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." | |
| March 16th, 1900 (March 16 1900) | Event | Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. | Evans Quotes |
| March 16th, 1872 (March 16 1872) | Event | 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. | |
| March 16th, 1867 (March 16 1867) | Event | First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. | |
| March 16th, 1865 (March 16 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough begins as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. | |
| March 16th, 1861 (March 16 1861) | Event | 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. | |
| 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, 1815 (March 16 1815) | Event | Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in The Netherlands. | Will Self Quotes |
| March 16th, 1812 (March 16 1812) | Event | Battle of Badajoz (March April 6)British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War. | |
| March 16th, 1802 (March 16 1802) | Event | The United States Military Academy at West Point is established. | |
| March 16th, 1792 (March 16 1792) | Event | King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. | |
| March 16th, 1689 (March 16 1689) | Event | The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. | |
| March 16th, 1660 (March 16 1660) | Event | The Long Parliament disbands. | |
| March 16th, 1621 (March 16 1621) | Event | Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." | |
| March 16th, 1521 (March 16 1521) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. | |
| March 16th, 1322 (March 16 1322) | Event | The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence. | |
| March 16th, 1249 (March 16 1249) | Event | The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany. | |
| March 16th, 1190 (March 16 1190) | Event | Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism. | |
| March 16th, 0597 (March 16 0597) | Event | Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king. | |
