Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 16
This is a list of selected March 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Aldo Moro, during his detention by Red Brigades -
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Clifford's Tower, York Castle
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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 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. | date not cited |
| 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.
- 1190 – Around 150 Jews died inside York Castle (pictured), with the majority committing mass suicide to avoid being killed by a mob.
- 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.
- 1689 – The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán off the coast of what is now Honduras.
- 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The Whites were victorious in the Battle of Länkipohja, after which they executed at least 70 Reds.
- 1935 – Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.
- 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.
- 1984 – William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
- 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.
- 2014 – Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a controversial referendum where voters overwhelmingly chose to join Russia as a federal subject.
- Born/died this day: John Leverett (d. 1678/79) · Caroline Herschel (b. 1750) · Anna Atkins (b. 1799) · John Pope (b. 1822) · Virginia Randolph (d. 1958) · Jorge Ramos (b. 1958) · 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
- 934 – Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
- 1244 – Albigensian Crusade: Following the successful Siege of Montségur, French royal forces burned about 210 unrepentant Cathars in a bonfire.
- 1802 – Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy (pictured) at West Point, New York.
- 1872 – In the first ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest association football competition, Wanderers defeated Royal Engineers 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
Jean de Brébeuf (d. 1649) · Ami Boué (b. 1794) · Iso Rae (d. 1940)