Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 16
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Coat of Arms of the U.S. Military Academy
Robert Goddard
Knossos
Charles I
Amoco Cadiz
Aldo Moro, during his detention by Red Brigades
My Lai Massacre
The FA Cup
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 934 – Meng Zhixiang declared himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. | Meng: empty section; Later Shu: refimprove |
| 1660 – The Long Parliament, originally called by King Charles I of England in 1640 following the Bishops' Wars, dissolved itself. | refimprove |
| 1815 – William I proclaimed himself King of the the first constitutional monarchy in the Netherlands. | refimprove |
| 1900 – British archaeologist Arthur Evans purchased the ruins of Knossos, a major centre of the Minoan civilization and the largest Bronze Age site on Crete, for excavations. | Evans: unreferenced section; Knossos: refimprove; date not in either article |
| 1926 – American scientist Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which flew for two-and-a-half seconds before falling to the ground. | refimprove section, too many quotes |
| 1978 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, about 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany, France, resulting in one of the largest oil spills ever. | refimprove section |
| 1978 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades. | unreferenced section, fringe |
| 1985 – American journalist Terry A. Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah militants. | refimprove |
| 2006 – The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 597 BC – Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
- 1244 – Following their successful siege of Montségur, French royal forces burned about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
- 1322 – Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.
- 1621 – Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, strolled into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (pictured).
- 1689 – The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
- 1802 – The United States Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in order to operate the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
- 1872 – In the first-ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest association football competition, Wanderers F.C. defeated Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The Whites were victorious in the Battle of Länkipohja, after which they executed at least 70 Reds.
- 1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.
- 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
- 1988 – Using pistols and grenades, Michael Stone attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members who had been killed in Gibraltar ten days earlier, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.
- 2003 – American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah as she was protesting the demolition of a house.
- Born/died this day: Caroline Herschel (b. 1750) · John Pope (b. 1822) · Iso Rae (d. 1940) · Sienna Guillory (b. 1975) · Jean Bellette (d. 1991) · Mary Meader (d. 2008)
Notes
- Operation Flavius appears on March 6, so Milltown Cemetery attack should not appear in the same year
March 16: Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires
Clifford's Tower, York Castle
- 1190 – Around 150 Jews died inside York Castle (pictured), with the majority committing mass suicide to avoid being killed by a mob.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán off the coast of what is now Honduras.
- 1935 – Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.
- 1984 – William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
- 2014 – Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a controversial referendum where voters overwhelmingly chose to join Russia as a federal subject.
John Leverett (d. 1678/79) · Anna Atkins (b. 1799) · Virginia Randolph (d. 1958)