16 Mairch

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 Lagerlöf, 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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Category:Days o the year