On This Day in History - March 16 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 16 |
1322 March 16
1322-03-16
The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars
1521 March 16
1521-03-16
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 March 16
1621-03-16
1621 -Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 March 16
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1660 - The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1689 March 16
1689-03-16
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1782 March 16
1782-03-16
1782 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
1792 March 16
1792-03-16
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 March 16
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1802 - The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 March 16
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1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 March 16
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1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeated Chileans under Jose de San Martín.
1861 March 16
1861-03-16
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865 March 16
1865-03-16
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.
1900 March 16
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1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1912 March 16
1912-03-16
1912 - Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 March 16
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1916 - The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1924 March 16
1924-03-16
1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
1926 March 16
1926-03-16
1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 March 16
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1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1939 March 16
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1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 March 16
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1940 - First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II.
1942 March 16
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1942 - The first V-2 rocket test launch.
1945 March 16
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1945 - Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 March 16
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1950 - Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 March 16
1958-03-16
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 March 16
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1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
1966 March 16
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1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 March 16
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1968 - General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile
1976 March 16
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1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned
1977 March 16
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1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 March 16
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1978 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split 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.
1983 March 16
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1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 March 16
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1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 March 16
1985-03-16
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 March 16
1988-03-16
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah 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.
1995 March 16
1995-03-16
1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
2005 March 16
2005-03-16
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
