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Events on the 16th of March in history

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16 Mar 0455 Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
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16 Mar 0597 Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
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16 Mar 0934 Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
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16 Mar 1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
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16 Mar 1190 Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
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16 Mar 1190 Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
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16 Mar 1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
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16 Mar 1244 Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur.
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16 Mar 1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
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16 Mar 1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
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16 Mar 1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
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16 Mar 1521 Ferdinand Magellan, reached the island of Homonhon, in the Philippines, with 150 crew. Members of his expedition became the first Spaniards to reach the Philippine archipelago, but were not the first Europeans. He landed with three small ships, Concepcion, Trinidad and Victoria and called the place the Arcigelago de San Lazaro since it was the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany.
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16 Mar 1521 Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
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16 Mar 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
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16 Mar 1527 Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
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16 Mar 1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts
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16 Mar 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
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16 Mar 1641 General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution
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16 Mar 1660 The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
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16 Mar 1660 English Long Parliament disbands
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16 Mar 1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
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16 Mar 1690 French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
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16 Mar 1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
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16 Mar 1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
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16 Mar 1782 American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
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16 Mar 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
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16 Mar 1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
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16 Mar 1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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16 Mar 1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point NY)
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16 Mar 1802 US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
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16 Mar 1812 Siege of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during the Peninsular War.
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16 Mar 1815 Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
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16 Mar 1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
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16 Mar 1818 In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
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16 Mar 1822 Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
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16 Mar 1827 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York NY), begins publishing
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16 Mar 1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
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16 Mar 1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
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16 Mar 1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
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16 Mar 1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
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16 Mar 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
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16 Mar 1836 Texas approves a constitution
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16 Mar 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
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16 Mar 1861 Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
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16 Mar 1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
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16 Mar 1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
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16 Mar 1862 Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
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16 Mar 1864 American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
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16 Mar 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
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16 Mar 1865 Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
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16 Mar 1869 Hiram R Revels makes the 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
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16 Mar 1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
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16 Mar 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.
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16 Mar 1872 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
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16 Mar 1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York)
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16 Mar 1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs England
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16 Mar 1881 Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts
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16 Mar 1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
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16 Mar 1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Tha
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16 Mar 1896 Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
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16 Mar 1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
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16 Mar 1900 AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
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16 Mar 1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
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16 Mar 1900 American League meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an American League teams will be in Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland & Buffalo
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16 Mar 1900 Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
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16 Mar 1907 1st first-class cricket game between New South Wales & Western Australia
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16 Mar 1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
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16 Mar 1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ontario) 13-4
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16 Mar 1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington DC
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16 Mar 1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
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16 Mar 1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
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16 Mar 1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
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16 Mar 1916 James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella" premieres in London
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16 Mar 1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
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16 Mar 1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
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16 Mar 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung" premieres in Hamburg
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16 Mar 1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
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16 Mar 1922 Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
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16 Mar 1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
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16 Mar 1923 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
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16 Mar 1924 In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
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16 Mar 1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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16 Mar 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meter)
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16 Mar 1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
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16 Mar 1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
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16 Mar 1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
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16 Mar 1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
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16 Mar 1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
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16 Mar 1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
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16 Mar 1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
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16 Mar 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.
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16 Mar 1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
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16 Mar 1938 No
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16 Mar 1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
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16 Mar 1939 Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
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16 Mar 1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
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16 Mar 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
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16 Mar 1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
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16 Mar 1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
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16 Mar 1940 First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
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16 Mar 1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
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16 Mar 1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
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16 Mar 1941 Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
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16 Mar 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington DC
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16 Mar 1942 The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
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16 Mar 1943 Elin K (No) andZaanland (Neth) torpedoed andsinks
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16 Mar 1943 Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sinks
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16 Mar 1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
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16 Mar 1945 Allies secure Iwo Jima
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16 Mar 1945 Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
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16 Mar 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
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16 Mar 1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
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16 Mar 1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
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16 Mar 1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
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16 Mar 1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Mar 1950 Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
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16 Mar 1950 1st annual National Book Awards
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16 Mar 1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R
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16 Mar 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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16 Mar 1953 American League rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
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16 Mar 1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
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16 Mar 1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
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16 Mar 1956 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright
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16 Mar 1956 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
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16 Mar 1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
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16 Mar 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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16 Mar 1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1
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16 Mar 1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
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16 Mar 1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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16 Mar 1959 Iraq and the USSR sign economic / technical treaty
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16 Mar 1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
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16 Mar 1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
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16 Mar 1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
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16 Mar 1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Mar 1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
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16 Mar 1966 Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
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16 Mar 1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
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16 Mar 1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
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16 Mar 1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
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16 Mar 1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
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16 Mar 1968 Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
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16 Mar 1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
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16 Mar 1968 Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
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16 Mar 1969 "1776" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 1217 performances
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16 Mar 1969 A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
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16 Mar 1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
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16 Mar 1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
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16 Mar 1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
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16 Mar 1970 New English Bible published
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16 Mar 1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Mar 1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
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16 Mar 1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
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16 Mar 1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
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16 Mar 1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
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16 Mar 1975 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
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16 Mar 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
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16 Mar 1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
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16 Mar 1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
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16 Mar 1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
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16 Mar 1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
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16 Mar 1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
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16 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
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16 Mar 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.
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16 Mar 1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
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16 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast
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16 Mar 1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
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16 Mar 1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
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16 Mar 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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16 Mar 1978 US Senate accepts Panam
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16 Mar 1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
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16 Mar 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
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16 Mar 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
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16 Mar 1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs. Nets - 1,814)
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16 Mar 1983 Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
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16 Mar 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
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16 Mar 1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
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16 Mar 1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
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16 Mar 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
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16 Mar 1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
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16 Mar 1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
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16 Mar 1986 Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
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16 Mar 1988 Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
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16 Mar 1988 The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
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16 Mar 1988 Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
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16 Mar 1988 Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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16 Mar 1988 Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
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16 Mar 1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
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16 Mar 1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
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16 Mar 1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
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16 Mar 1991 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
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16 Mar 1991 7 members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
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16 Mar 1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
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16 Mar 1991 New Jersey Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
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16 Mar 1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
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16 Mar 1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
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16 Mar 1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
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16 Mar 1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
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16 Mar 1995 Miss House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-slavery ends
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16 Mar 1995 Mississippi formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment
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16 Mar 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.
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16 Mar 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
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16 Mar 1995 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
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16 Mar 1995 Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery
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16 Mar 1995 World best 7th wicket stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
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16 Mar 1996 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
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16 Mar 1997 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
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16 Mar 1997 New Jersey Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
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16 Mar 1997 Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
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16 Mar 1997 Toshiba Senior Golf Classic
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16 Mar 2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
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16 Mar 2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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16 Mar 2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
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