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The
16t o Mairch
is the 75t day o the year (76t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 290 days ti come.
Events
- 1521
-
Ferdinand Magellan
reaches the
Philippines
.
- 1792
-
Gustav III o Swaden
is shot, an dees on
29 Mairch
.
- 1906
- A
yirdquauk
in Chianyi,
Taiwan
, kills 1,300 fowk.
- 1924
- The Free State o Fiume is annexed as pairt o the
Kinrick o Italy
.
- 1938
-
Spaingie Ceevil War
: Three days o Naitionalist bombin o
Barcelona
stairts, resultin in up tae 1,300 daiths.
- 1939
- Frae
Prague
Castle,
Adolf Hitler
, proclaims
Bohemie
an
Moravie
tae be a German protectorate.
- 1940
-
Warld War II
: German bombin as carried oot at
Scapa Flow
,
Orkney
.
- 1968
-
Vietnam War
:
US
troops commit the My Lai massacre.
- 1976
-
Harold Wilson
resigns as
Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
.
- 1978
- Italian politeecian
Aldo Moro
is kidnapped.
- 1978
-
Ile
tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground off
Breetany
, causin a major spill.
- 1988
-
Iraq
attacks the
Kurdish
toun o Halabja wi chemical wappens.
- 1993
- A blizzard in the east coast o the
Unitit States
kills 184 fowk.
- 1995
-
Mississippi
becomes the last US state tae offeecially abolish slavery.
- 2005
-
Israel
haunds
Jericho
back tae
Palestinian
control.
- 2010
-
Uganda
's Kasubi Tombs, a
Warld Heritage Steid
, burn doon.
- 2014
-
Crimea
hols a controversial referendum on reunification wi
Roushie
.
- 2014
- The 2014
Winter
Paralympic Gemmes
in
Sochi
, Soothren
Roushie
, end.
- 2019
-
Rugby union
:
Scotland
comes frae 31-0 doon tae narrowly miss oot on first away win agin
Ingland
syne
1983
, drawin 38-38.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
:
Benin
,
Greenland
,
Liberie
,
Somalie
an
Tanzanie
record thair first
COVID-19
cases.
Births
- 1399
-
Xuande Emperor
o
Cheenae
(d.
1435
)
- 1750
-
Caroline Herschel
, German-Breetish astronomer (d.
1848
)
- 1751
-
James Madison
, 4t
Preses o the Unitit States
(d.
1836
)
- 1774
-
Matthew Flinders
, Inglis splorer (d.
1814
)
- 1789
-
Georg Ohm
, German pheesicist an mathemateecian (d.
1854
)
- 1839
-
Sully Prudhomme
, French writer (d.
1907
)
- 1871
-
Julian Robert Lindsey
, American Major General (d.
1948
)
- 1911
-
Josef Mengele
, German Nazi doctor (d.
1979
)
- 1912
-
Pat Nixon
, First Lady o the Unitit States (d.
1993
)
- 1918
-
Frederick Reines
, American pheesicist (d.
1998
)
- 1927
-
Vladimir Komarov
, Roushie cosmonaut (d.
1967
)
- 1936
-
Ken Laidlaw
, Scots cyclist
- 1940
-
Bernardo Bertolucci
, Italian film director (d.
2018
)
- 1952
-
Paul Cockshott
, Scots computer scientist
- 1953
-
Richard Stallman
, American computer programmer
- 1953
-
Isabelle Huppert
, French actress
- 1954
-
David Heath
,
Inglish
politeecian
- 1954
-
Jimmy Nail
, Inglis actor an muisicker
- 1959
-
Jens Stoltenberg
, Norse politeecian
- 1986
-
Neil Gray
, Scots politeecian
- 1989
-
Theo Walcott
, Inglis fitbawer
Daiths
- 37
-
Tiberius
, Roman Emperor (b.
42 BC
)
- 455
-
Valentinian III
, Roman Emperor (b.
419
)
- 1861
-
Princess Victoria o Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
(b.
1786
)
- 1914
-
Charles Albert Gobat
, Swiss lawyer an politeecian (b.
1843
)
- 1935
-
John MacLeod
, Scots biochemist an pheesiologist (b.
1876
)
- 1940
-
Selma Lagerlof
, Swadish writer (b.
1858
)
- 1942
-
John Stewart-Murray, 8t Duke o Atholl
, Scots sodger an politeecian (b.
1871
)
- 1944
-
David Prain
, Scots medicinar an botanist (b.
1857
)
- 2003
-
Rachel Corrie
, American activist (b.
1979
)
- 2005
-
Ralph Erskine
, Scots airchitect (b.
1914
)
- 2018
-
George Meek
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1934
)
Halidays
- 16 Mairch
is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
- St. Abban
- St. Hilary
- St. Aninus
- St. Abraham Kidunaja
- St. Dentlin
- St. Finian Lobhar
- St. Finian Munnu
- Bl. John Amias
- Bl. John Cacciafronte
- St. Julian o Anazarbus
- Bl. Robert Dalby
- St. Megingaud
- St. Patrick
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