March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL EVERYTHING YOU DO IS RIGHT DAY
NATIONAL EVERYTHING YOU DO IS RIGHT DAY
597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
455 – Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
1802 – The United States Military Academy–the first military school in the United States–is founded by Congress for the purpose of educating and training young men in the theory and practice of military science.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1916 – The 7th and 10th U.S. cavalry regiments under General John Joseph Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
1926 – History of Rocketry: Dr. Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh, PA.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
BORN TODAY
1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854)
1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854)
1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
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