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Day Of The Week: March 16
March 16, 2025 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Pisces is your zodiac sign. Aquamarine is your modern birthstone. Jade is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: March 16
- 1190 –Massacre of Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1689 –The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
- 1924 –In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
- 1935 –Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
- 1950 –Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- 1966 –Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
- 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.
- 1983 –Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
Who were born on March 16?
- 1631 –René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
- 1654 –Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
- 1687 –Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
- 1822 –Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
- 1839 –John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
- 1946 –Michael Basman, English chess master
- 1963 –Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
- 1967 –John Darnielle, American Musician
- 1981 –Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
- 1986 –Joe Denly, English cricketer
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