16 Mairch

The 16t o Mairch is the 75t day o the year (76t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 290 days ti come.

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1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1792 - Gustav III o Swaden is shot, an dees on 29 Mairch.
1906 - A yirdquauk in Chianyi, Taiwan, kills 1,300 fowk.
1924 - The Free State o Fiume is annexed as pairt o the Kinrick o Italy.
1938 - Spaingie Ceevil War: Three days o Naitionalist bombin o Barcelona stairts, resultin in up tae 1,300 daiths.
1939 - Frae Prague Castle, Adolf Hitler, proclaims Bohemie an Moravie tae be a German protectorate.
1940 - Warld War II: German bombin as carried oot at Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1968 - Vietnam War: US troops commit the My Lai massacre.
1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
1978 - Italian politeecian Aldo Moro is kidnapped.
1978 - Ile tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground off Breetany, causin a major spill.
1988 - Iraq attacks the Kurdish toun o Halabja wi chemical wappens.
1993 - A blizzard in the east coast o the Unitit States kills 184 fowk.
1995 - Mississippi becomes the last US state tae offeecially abolish slavery.
2005 - Israel haunds Jericho back tae Palestinian control.
2010 - Uganda's Kasubi Tombs, a Warld Heritage Steid, burn doon.
2014 - Crimea hols a controversial referendum on reunification wi Roushie.
2014 - The 2014 Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Sochi, Soothren Roushie, end.
2019 - Rugby union: Scotland comes frae 31-0 doon tae narrowly miss oot on first away win agin Ingland syne 1983, drawin 38-38.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Benin, Greenland, Liberie, Somalie an Tanzanie record thair first COVID-19 cases.

37 - Tiberius, Roman Emperor (b. 42 BC)
455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1861 - Princess Victoria o Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1786)
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer an politeecian (b. 1843)
1935 - John MacLeod, Scots biochemist an pheesiologist (b. 1876)
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swadish writer (b. 1858)
1942 - John Stewart-Murray, 8t Duke o Atholl, Scots sodger an politeecian (b. 1871)
1944 - David Prain, Scots medicinar an botanist (b. 1857)
2003 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
2005 - Ralph Erskine, Scots airchitect (b. 1914)
2018 - George Meek, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)

St. Abban

St. Hilary

St. Aninus

St. Abraham Kidunaja

St. Dentlin

St. Finian Lobhar

St. Finian Munnu

Bl. John Amias

Bl. John Cacciafronte

St. Julian o Anazarbus

Bl. Robert Dalby

St. Megingaud

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