March 16

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March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining.

Events

1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset , a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 - The Long Parliament disbands.
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 - West Point is established.
1815 - Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands.
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is published for the first time.
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans discovers the ruins of Knossos on Crete.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super-Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean killing 107
1968 - Vietnam War: My Lai massacre American troops kills scores of women and children.
1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
1984 - CIA station chief stationed in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would later be 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.
1988 - Iraq attacks the Kurdish town of Halabjah with mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000.
1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184.
1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.
2003 - Largest co-ordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
2880 - A 1/300 probability prediction that Asteroid 1950DA will hit Earth causing an extinction-level event