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 76th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 3, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,509,120 minutes 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 ‘heptacontahexagon’ day.
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 319 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 4,103 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 16 Historical Events
- 1244 –Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur
- 1322 –The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars.
- 1861 –Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
- 1924 –In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
- 1926 –History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1935 –Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1940 –First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
- 1942 –The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
- 1958 –The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
- 1976 –British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
Who were born on March 16?
- 1822 –Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
- 1865 –Patsy Donovan, American baseball player (d. 1953)
- 1931 –Betty Johnson, American singer
- 1948 –Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and film director
- 1953 –Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- 1954 –Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
- 1970 –Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, Icelandic singer, songwriter and disc jockey
- 1972 –Velibor Radovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1976 –Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 –Todd Heap, American football player
Who died on March 16?
- 1037 –Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
- 1888 –Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
- 1955 –Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
- 1971 –Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
- 2005 –Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
- 2005 –Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
- 2006 –David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
- 2008 –Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham). (b. 1968)
- 2008 –Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
- 2011 –Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (b. 1931)
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