About March 16
March 16, 2024 is the 76th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 319 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 16
- 1190 –Massacre of Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1660 –The Long Parliament dissolved.
- 1802 –The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- 1815 –Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- 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 US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
- 1939 –From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1939 –Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- 1950 –Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- 1962 –A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
- 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 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
- 1976 –British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
- 1977 –Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
- 1983 –Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
- 1984 –William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
- 1985 –Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
- 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.
- 2005 –Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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