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
- 37 –Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1621 –Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 1935 –Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1940 –First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
- 1950 –Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- 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 –A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
- 1963 –Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
- 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.
- 1978 –Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
- 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 –Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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