About March 16
March 16, 2025 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 338 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 16
- 1244 –Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur
- 1689 –The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 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.
- 1818 –Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
- 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.
- 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 –Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- 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 –In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
- 1926 –History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1939 –Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- 1945 –Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
- 1950 –Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- 1963 –Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
- 1968 –General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
- 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.
- 1984 –William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
- 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 –Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
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