What are the important events that happened on March 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 16 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,912 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontapentagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 338 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,468 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 16 Historical Events
- 1689 –The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1792 –King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
- 1818 –Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- 1939 –Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- 1945 –Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
- 1963 –Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
- 1978 –Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
- 1978 –Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
- 1985 –Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
Who were born on March 16?
- 1585 –Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
- 1908 –Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966)
- 1928 –Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- 1928 –Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
- 1963 –Jimmy Degrasso, American musician (F5)
- 1965 –Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer
- 1966 –Hans Peter Geerdes, German musician (Scooter)
- 1967 –Lauren Graham, American actress
- 1974 –Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
- 1986 –Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
Who died on March 16?
- 1559 –Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
- 1649 –Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1888 –Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
- 1975 –Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
- 1983 –Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
- 1996 –Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
- 1998 –Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
- 2000 –Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
- 2001 –Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
- 2003 –Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
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