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- 0597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
- 1190 Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.
- 1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
- 1249 The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
- 1322 Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
- 1345 Holy spirit glides above fire; "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
- 1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
- 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- 1521 Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
- 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
- 1527 Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
- 1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth MA
- 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
- 1641 General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution
- 1649 Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 and Gabriel Lalement 1611-1649 are tortured by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis
- 1649 War party of more than 1000 Iroquois invade Huronia, capturing St-Ignace before sunrise; they will destroy all the villages and Jesuit missions in the area, and only 8 soldiers, 22 donnes and seven servants escape
- 1660 English Long Parliament disbands
- 1660 The Long Parliament disbands.
- 1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
- 1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
- 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
- 1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
- 1800 In Quebec, Jean-Joseph Casot 1728-1800, last Jesuit survivor of the French regime, dies at Quebec; the property of the order in Canada appropriates to the Crown.
- 1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point NY)
- 1802 The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
- 1812 Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War.
- 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.
- 1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
- 1818 Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under Jos de San Martn.
- 1827 US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York NY), begins publishing
- 1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
- 1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
- 1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes first US woman grad of a pharmacy college
- 1836 Texas approves a constitution
- 1843 James Douglas 1803-1877 starts construction of Fort Camosun [Victoria]; first Hudson's Bay Company post on Vancouver Island.
- 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
- 1855 Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded.
- 1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
- 1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
- 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.
- 1862 Battle at Pound Gap KY: Confederates separate battles
- 1865 Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
- 1867 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
- 1869 Hiram R Revels makes the first official speech by a black in the Senate
- 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.
- 1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight first female boxing match (New York)
- 1877 Charles Bannerman completes first Test cricket century, 165 vs England
- 1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
- 1900 Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
- 1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- 1906 Kagi, Formosa a 7.1 earthquake caused 1,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
- 1907 First first-class cricket game between New South Wales & Western Australia
- 1912 Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
- 1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC
- 1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
- 1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
- 1915 The Second Canadian Division begins to arrive in England for service in World War I.
- 1916 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of Pancho Villa.
- 1916 Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US
- 1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
- 1922 Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
- 1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
- 1924 The free port of Fiume formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
- 1925 Yunnan, China a 7.1 earthquake caused5,000 deaths. Talifu almost completely destroyed.
- 1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meter)
- 1926 The first man to give dreams of reaching the stars a glimpse of reality was Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts
- 1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
- 1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
- 1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
- 1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
- 1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
- 1938 Noël Coward's musical "Operette", premieres in London
- 1939 From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
- 1939 Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
- 1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
- 1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
- 1941 Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
- 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington DC
- 1942 History of Rocketry: First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)
- 1943 Flight Lieutenant WE Newton awarded posthumously the Victoria Cross Newton was the only member of the RAAF to win the Victoria Cross in the Pacific war
- 1943 The ships Elin K (Norway) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sunk
- 1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
- 1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
- 1945 Wrzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
- 1946 John Dick's headless, armless and legless torso found on Hamilton Mountain, leading to sensational trial of his wife Evelyn, later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1947 Convair Liner, first US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
- 1950 Visitor posting - Bill Lehmkuhl was Born in Pennsylvania - USA
- 1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Réunion (world record)
- 1952 American Radio Personality Barry Michaels was born March 16, 1952
- 1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as first Dutch female judge
- 1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
- 1956 In Lebanon, two 6.0 eathquakes approximately 9 minutes apart. 136 killed, 6,000 houses destroyed and 17,000 damaged in 400 villages in the Chouf region.
- 1956 St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
- 1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
- 1957 Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 7.0 earthquake occured One of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States
- 1958 Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
- 1958 In Beirut, Lebanon, Islamic militants kidnap American journalist Terry Anderson, and take him to the southern suburbs of the war-torn city where other Western hostages are being held in scattered dungeons under ruined building
- 1958 On this day in 1958 the Ford Motor Company produced its 50,000,000th car, a Thunderbird
- 1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
- 1961 Jaguar Cars Ltd. introduced the XK-E, or E-Type, at the Geneva Auto Show. Th E-Type was the successor to the C- and D-Type Jaguar that had earned the company’s reputation for racing excellenc
- 1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
- 1962 The first launching of Titan 2-rocket
- 1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
- 1963 Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead
- 1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
- 1965 University of Waterloo starts bilingual course in Honours French and Political Science; for students preparing to enter federal Civil Service.
- 1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
- 1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
- 1966 Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
- 1966 On this day in 1966 General Motors produced its 100,000,000th car, an Oldsmobile Toronado
- 1967 Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.
- 1968 During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My
- 1968 General Motors releases its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
- 1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
- 1968 Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
- 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
- 1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
- 1970 New English Bible published
- 1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
- 1971 Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway
- 1971 The first SH-2D Lamps (Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System) helicopter test flight took place at Kaman's Bloomfield, Connecticut Facility
- 1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Paper Lace - Billy Don't Be A Hero
- 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
- 1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
- 1976 UK Prime Minister, Harold Wilson resigns.
- 1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
- 1978 Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
- 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast
- 1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
- 1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
- 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history
- 1978 US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty
- 1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
- 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
- 1982 Visitor posting - rosanne gurwen 0839415522 - South Africa
- 1983 Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
- 1983 Visitor posting - Monica Morandi, the perfect girl, was born. - USA
- 1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
- 1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
- 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
- 1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
- 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
- 1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
- 1985 In the Leeward Islands a 6.8 earthquake injured 6 and damage (VI) on Guadeloupe. Minor damage on Montserrat. Also felt on Antigua, St. Kitts and Puerto Rico.
- 1988 As part of the Iran-Contra affair, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council (NSC) are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States
- 1988 Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
- 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.
- 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 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
- 1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
- 1989 Visitor posting - Robin Wells was born today - USA
- 1991 7 members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
- 1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
- 1992 Visitor posting - Leanna "Pyro" Hoff, future landmark author and filmmaker, is born - USA
- 1993 Edmonton, Alberta Police use pepper spray and batons to control over 100 youths who attacked passers-by in the Eaton Centre and Edmonton Centre malls, after a screening of the rap movie spoof CB4
- 1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
- 1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
- 1994 Visitor posting - Derek Huntoon was born. - USA
- 1995 Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery
- 1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
- 1995 Visitor posting - courtney jones is born - USA
- 1995 World best 7th wicket stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
- 1996 Gran Persson is elected leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.
- 1996 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
- 1996 Visitor posting - Remi Langridge born. My amazing cat is called meow =D she lives up to her name - United Kingdom
- 1997 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
- 1997 Sandline affair - On Bougainville, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International
- 1998 Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
- 2003 Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
- 2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control
- 2008 Bear Stearns is bought by JP Morgan Chase & co. In deal orchestrated by and backed by the government
- 2009 Visitor postings - March 16 2009- Kevin Lora's birthday!!!!!
- 2010 Visitor posting - William D. Karabinus celebrates 51st birthday - USA
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