16 Mairch

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The 16t o Mairch is the 75t day o the year (76t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 290 days ti come.

Events

1978: Amoco Cadiz ile spill

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1792 - Gustav III o Swaden is shot, an dees on 29 Mairch.
1906 - A yirdquauk in Chianyi, Taiwan, kills 1,300 fowk.
1924 - The Free State o Fiume is annexed as pairt o the Kinrick o Italy.
1938 - Spaingie Ceevil War: Three days o Naitionalist bombin o Barcelona stairts, resultin in up tae 1,300 daiths.
1939 - Frae Prague Castle, Adolf Hitler, proclaims Bohemie an Moravie tae be a German protectorate.
1940 - Warld War II: German bombin as carried oot at Scapa Flow, Orkney.
1968 - Vietnam War: US troops commit the My Lai massacre.
1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
1978 - Italian politeecian Aldo Moro is kidnapped.
1978 - Ile tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground off Breetany, causin a major spill.
1988 - Iraq attacks the Kurdish toun o Halabja wi chemical wappens.
1993 - A blizzard in the east coast o the Unitit States kills 184 fowk.
1995 - Mississippi becomes the last US state tae offeecially abolish slavery.
2005 - Israel haunds Jericho back tae Palestinian control.
2010 - Uganda's Kasubi Tombs, a Warld Heritage Steid, burn doon.
2014 - Crimea hols a controversial referendum on reunification wi Roushie.
2014 - The 2014 Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Sochi, Soothren Roushie, end.
2019 - Rugby union: Scotland comes frae 31-0 doon tae narrowly miss oot on first away win agin Ingland syne 1983, drawin 38-38.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Benin, Greenland, Liberie, Somalie an Tanzanie record thair first COVID-19 cases.