Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 16
This is a list of selected March 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The FA Cup -
Aldo Moro, during his detention by Red Brigades
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. | empty section |
| 1660 – The Long Parliament, originally called by King Charles I of England in 1640 following the Bishops' Wars, dissolved itself. | refimprove |
| 1815 – William I proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. | Tagged with {{unreferenced}} |
| 1900 – British archaeologist Arthur Evans purchased the ruins of Knossos, a major centre of the Minoan civilization and the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, for excavations. | need to verify date, intro needs rewrite |
| 1935 – Conscription was re-introduced in Nazi Germany, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht. | needs more footnotes, refimprove section |
| 1978 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, about 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany, France, resulting in one of the largest oil spills ever. | refimprove section |
| 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. | citation style, needs more footnotes |
| 1985 – American journalist Terry A. Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah militants. | refimprove |
| 2006 – The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. | unbalanced section |
Eligible
- 1244 – Following their successful siege of Montségur, French royal forces burned about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
- 1322 – Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.
- 1621 – Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims when he strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English.
- 1802 – The United States Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in order to operate the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
- 1872 – In the first-ever final of the FA Cup, today the oldest association football competition in the world, Wanderers F.C. defeated Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest air and sea searches in the history of the Pacific.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.
- 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
- 1988 – Using pistols and grenades, loyalist Michael Stone attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members who had been killed in Gibraltar ten days earlier, killing three attendees and injuring over 60 more.
Notes
- Operation Flavius appears on March 6, so Milltown Cemetery attack should not appear in the same year
March 16: Purim ends at sundown (Judaism, 2014); Latvian Legion Day
- 597 BC – Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
- 1190 – Around 150 Jews inside York Castle in York, England, committed mass suicide rather than be killed by a mob.
- 1926 – American scientist Robert H. Goddard (pictured) launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which flew for two-and-a-half seconds before falling to the ground.
- 1978 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
- 2003 – American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah as she was protesting the demolition of a house.