On this day in History - Mar. 16

• 0597 AC - Nabucodonosor II aplasta la rebelión de Judá.
• 0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar ,second Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (b. 46 B.C.E.) dies.
• 0455 - Valentinian III, dies Roman emperor, (b. 419).
• 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England.
• 1521 - O navegador português Fernando de Magalhães chegou às Filipinas. Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
• 1567 -Expulsão dos franceses do Rio de Janeiro (Ilha de Villegaignon), por Estácio de Sá.
• 1585- Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, was born, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618) .
• 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
• 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands.
• 1734 - Aparece la "Gaceta de México", primer periódico publicado en el país.
• 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, dies, Italian composer, (b. 1710) .
• 1737 - Convenção luso-espanhola sobre o incidente com o embaixador português, acontecido em 1735, por mediação da Inglaterra e da Holanda.
• 1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, dies, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690) .
• 1751- James Madison, was born, 4th President of the United States, (d. 1836) .
• 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, was born, German physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law, (d. 1854) .
• 1792- King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
• 1812 - Se inaugura en Buenos Aires la Biblioteca Pública, hoy Biblioteca Nacional, la primera de América.
• 1815 - Willem I becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1819- Nascimento do Visconde do Rio Branco (José Maria da Silva Paranhos (o pai), em Salvador-BA, no ano de 1819.
• 1825 - Nasceu o escritor português Camilo Castelo Branco na freguesia dos Mártires, cidade de Lisboa. Foi um profissional das letras multifacetado, cuja obra o posicionou com uma das figuras mais eminentes da literatura portuguesa. (m. 01 de Junho de 1890, por suicídio, na freguesia de Ceide, Vila Nova de Famalicão).
• 1834 - James Hector, was born, Scottish geologist, (d. 1907) .
• 1839 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, was born, French writer, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, (d. 1907) .
• 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
• 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, was born, German archbishop of Münster and cardinal, (d. 1946) .
• 1878 - Reza Pahlavi, was born, shah of Iran (d. 1941) .
• 1889 - Reggie Walker, was born, South African athlete (d. 1951) .
• 1892 - Nace César Vallejo, na cidade de Santiago de Chuco del norte del Peru. Poeta, César Vallejo es acaso una de las figuras de mayor relieve dentro del vanguardismo hispánico. Muere en 1918 en Paris.
• 1898 -Muere el grabador y dibujante Aubrey Beardsley.
• 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, dies, British artist, (b. 1872) .
• 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos on Crete. .
• 1901 - Edward Pawley, was born, American actor.
• 1902 - Leon Roppolo, was born, American jazz clarinetist, (d. 1943) .
• 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, dies, jurist, Old West pioneer, (b. c. 1825) .
• 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, was born, German actress, (d. 1977) .
• 1906 - Henny Youngman, was born, American comedian, (d. 1998) .
• 1910 - Muere Juan de Dios Peza, poeta mexicano.
• 1911- Josef Mengele, was born, Nazi war criminal, (d. 1979) .
• 1912 - Pat Nixon, was born, actress, First Lady, (d. 1993) .
• 1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, morre político suiço, premio Nobel da Paz em 1902.
• 1918 - Frederick Reines, was born, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics), (d. 1998) .
• 1920 - Leo McKern, was born d. 2002). British actor.
• 1922 -Nace el novelista y cineasta Pier Paolo Passolini.
• 1926- Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• 1926 - Jerry Lewis, was born in Newark, New Jerse. Actor, comedian .
• 1928 - Christa Ludwig, was born, German mezzo-soprano.
• 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, was born, Russian cosmonaut, (d. 1967) .
• 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was born, Senator from New York, (d. 2003) .
• 1929 - Nadja Tiller, was born, German actress .
• 1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, muere, militar, presidente del Gobierno españal (1923-1930).
• 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, was born, former Governor-General of Canada, (d. 2002) .
• 1935 - John James Richard Macleod, muere, médico inglês, premio Nobel de Medicina en 1923.
• 1935 - Na Alemanha, foi restabelecido o serviço militar obrigatório .
• 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• 1940 - Chuck Woolery, was born, game show host .
• 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, dies, Swedish writer, (b. 1858) Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 .
• 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, was born, Italian film director.
• 1942 - James Soong, was born, Taiwanese politician .
• 1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, dies, German poet (b. 1874) .
• 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
• 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
• 1948 - Nace Carlos Bilardo, técnico de fútbol argentino.
• 1949 - Erik Estrada, was born, Puerto Rican actor.
• 1949 - Victor Garber, was born, Canadian actor .
• 1949 - Sergio Denis, was born, cantante y compositor argentino.
• 1952 - Philippe Kahn, was born, French/American entrepreneur.
• 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, was born, French actress.
• 1953 - Richard Stallman, was born, Free Software activist & founder of GNU .
• 1954 - Nancy Wilson, was born, guitarist, singer, actress.
• 1955 - Jiro Watanabe, was born, Japanese boxing world champion.
• 1955- Nascimento de Bruno Barreto , diretor do cinema brasileiro, no Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
• 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
• 1957 -Fallece el escultor Constantin Brancusi.
• 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, dies, Romanian sculptor, (b. 1876) .
• 1959 - Flavor Flav, was born, rap musician .
• 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, was born, Prime Minister of Norway.
• 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers - men, women, and children --are killed by American troops.
• 1968 - Secuestro del arzobispo de Guatemala Mario Casariego por el Movimiento Antiguerrillero Nuevo Orden.
• 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155.
• 1970 - Tammi Terrell, dies, American Motown singer .
• 1971 - Thomas Dewey, dies, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948, (b. 1902 ).
• 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
• 1974 - Eclode uma tentativa de Golpe Militar com início no Regimento de Infantaria 5, sedeado nas Caldas da Rainha.
• 1975 - T-Bone Walker, dies, musician, (b. 1910) .
• 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, dies, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917) .
• 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
• 1978 - El Amoco Cádiz encalla y desparrama en el mar 233.000 toneladas de petróleo en las costas francesas.
• 1978 - La Soyuz 26 retorna a la Tierra.
• 1979 - Morreu o ideólogo da Europa Unida, Jean Monet ( n. 1888 9 novembre) Jean Monnet naît à Cognac dans une famille de négociants d'eau de vie.
• 1980 - Todd Heap, was born, American football player .
• 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
• 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would 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 - The Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000.
• 1988 - No Panamá, o General Manuel Antonio Noriega sobrevive à uma tentativa de golpe de estado que ele alegou ter sido incitado pelos Estados Unidos.
• 1990 - James Bulger, was born, abduction/murder victim, (d. 1993) .
• 1990 -Início da Vigência do Cruzeiro ( Cr$ - o terceiro ), no ano de 1990 (Medida Provisória nº 168 de 15/03/1990). .
• 1992 - Carlie Brucia, was born, kidnap/murder victim, (d. 2004).
• 1993 -Natália Correia, poetisa e romancista, morre em Lisboa. Açoreana, natural da Ilha de São Miguel, Natália de Oliveira Correia nasceu a 13 de Setembro de.Figura importante da poesia portuguesa contemporânea, trabalha, também, a sua criatividade como ensaísta e romancista, passando pelo teatro e investigação literária .
• 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
• 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1997 - La Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) gana las elecciones legislativas y municipales en El Salvador.
• Sir Derek Harold R. Barton, dies (b. 16 Mar 1998) . British chemist, a joint recipient (with Odd Hassel of Norway) of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research that helped establish conformational analysis - the study of the 3-D geometric structure of complex molecules.
• 2002- Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah USA.
• 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against war on Iraq.
• 2003 - Rachel Corrie, dies, American political activist (b. 1979) .
• 2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson, dies, father of Sarah, Duchess of York.