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