16th March anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • Russian Federation
  • "Birth of Aleksandr Popov, Russian physicist, electrical engineer and radio pioneer"
• event
  • 37
  • Italy
  • "Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome after the death of his great uncle, Tiberias." more
  • 1322
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Boroughbridge
  • 1521
  • Portugal
  • Ferdinand Magellan arrives in the Philippines more
  • 1872
  • Great Britain
  • First FA Cup – Wanderers FC beat Royal Engineers AFC 1-0 at the Oval
  • 1976
  • Great Britain
  • Harold Wilson Resigns
  • 1978
  • France
  • "The oil tanker ‘Amoco Cadiz’ ran aground off the coast of Brittany, France, spilling 220,000 tons of crude oil and causing extensive pollution."
  • 1978
  • Italy
  • Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped (and later killed) by left-wing guerrillas.
  • 1984
  • Lebanon
  • "The CIAs station chief in Beirut, William Buckley, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. (He died in captivity)"
  • 1988
  • Iraq
  • "Thousands of people died in a poison gas attack on Halabja, northern Iraq ."
  • 1988
  • United States
  • Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice-Admiral John Poindexter were indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the.
  • 1998
  • Rwanda
  • "Rwanda began mass trials for the country’s 1994 genocide. There were 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders."
• Death
  • 1807
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker whose signal at the battle of Copenhagen Nelson ignored by putting his telecope to his blind eye, 'I see no signal'."
  • 1983
  • United States
  • "Death of Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host ."
  • 1998
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist and Nobel Prize winner."