Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Tue Mar 16 2021 06:00 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
03/16/1585 Gerbrand Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
03/16/1585 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Spanish Brabander)
03/16/1609 Michael Franck, composer
03/16/1651 Zaccaria Tevo, composer
03/16/1663 Nicholas Siret, composer
03/16/1739 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
03/16/1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
03/16/1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronome
03/16/1751 James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
03/16/1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
03/16/1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
03/16/1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
03/16/1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18
03/16/1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
03/16/1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
03/16/1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
03/16/1822 John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
03/16/1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
03/16/1823 William Henry Monk, composer
03/16/1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
03/16/1836 Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
03/16/1839 Ren� F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
03/16/1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
03/16/1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
03/16/1868 Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) (3/28 NS)
03/16/1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
03/16/1876 Charles Halton, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
03/16/1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
03/16/1878 Henry B Walthall, actor (Birth of a Nation, China Clipper, Klondike)
03/16/1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
03/16/1884 Harrison Ford (II), actor
03/16/1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
03/16/1885 Sydney Chaplin, actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters, Limelight)
03/16/1896 Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
03/16/1901 Walter E Sch�fer, German playwright
03/16/1903 Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
03/16/1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
03/16/1904 Clive Morton, actor (His Excellency, Run for Your Money)
03/16/1906 Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife, please)
03/16/1910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
03/16/1910 Norman Wooland, Germany, actor (Hamlet)
03/16/1912 Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
03/16/1916 Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
03/16/1918 Aldo E van Eyck, architect (City Hall)
03/16/1918 Howard Boatwright, composer
03/16/1919 Erno Kiraly, composer
03/16/1920 John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
03/16/1920 Leo McKern, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
03/16/1922 Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
03/16/1925 Cornell Borchers, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
03/16/1926 Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
03/16/1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
03/16/1927 Karlheinz Boehm, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
03/16/1927 Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
03/16/1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
03/16/1928 Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
03/16/1928 Ramon Barce, composer
03/16/1929 Edwin London, composer
03/16/1930 Minoru Miky, composer
03/16/1931 Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show)
03/16/1932 R Walter M Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
03/16/1936 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
03/16/1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer
03/16/1937 David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
03/16/1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
03/16/1940 Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
03/16/1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
03/16/1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, composer (Mr BoJangles)
03/16/1946 Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
03/16/1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
03/16/1949 Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
03/16/1949 Victor Garber, Montr�al Qu�bec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
03/16/1951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
03/16/1951 Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
03/16/1954 Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977,78)
03/16/1954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart-Never, Barracuda, What about Love)
03/16/1955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
03/16/1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
03/16/1959 Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
03/16/1963 Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
03/16/1965 Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
03/16/1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
Deaths:
03/16/ 37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77
03/16/1072 Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
03/16/1629 Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
03/16/1736 Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26
03/16/1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 7
03/16/1806 Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
03/16/1819 Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
03/16/1838 Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
03/16/1841 F�lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
03/16/1843 Anton R Falck, minister of Education/Colonization, dies at 65
03/16/1867 Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
03/16/1881 Modest P Moessorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godoenov), dies at 42
03/16/1882 Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies
03/16/1887 Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
03/16/1909 George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
03/16/1910 Eduard FW Pfl�ger, German physiologist, dies at 80
03/16/1914 Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, killed by Mme Caillaux
03/16/1919 Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 40
03/16/1930 Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Spain's dictator (1923-30), dies
03/16/1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
03/16/1935 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies
03/16/1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English min of Foreign affairs (Nobel), dies
03/16/1940 Selma O Lagerl�f, Swedish author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel 1909), dies
03/16/1941 John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
03/16/1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Tanz), dies at 6
03/16/1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
03/16/1946 Marius HLW 'Max' Blokzijl, NSB-minister of propaganda, executed at 6
03/16/1946 Max Blokzijl, NSB-minister of propaganda, executed
03/16/1955 Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
03/16/1956 Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
03/16/1957 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian communist/parliament chairman, dies
03/16/1958 Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
03/16/1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
03/16/1962 John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85
03/16/1964 Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
03/16/1967 James Friskin, composer, dies at 81
03/16/1968 Bengt G Ekel�f, Swedish poet (Nun Serviam), dies at 60
03/16/1968 June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
03/16/1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
03/16/1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
03/16/1970 Tammi Terrell, singer, dies at 23 of a brain tumor
03/16/1971 Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70
03/16/1971 Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
03/16/1972 Harold 'Pie' Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72
03/16/1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
03/16/1975 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
03/16/1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
03/16/1979 Jean Monnet, French economist/chairman (EGKS), dies at 90
03/16/1983 Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
03/16/1985 BVA R�ling, lawyer, dies at 78
03/16/1985 Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
03/16/1987 Scott McKay, actor (Guest in the House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies
03/16/1988 Dorothy Adams Foulger, dies
03/16/1990 Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
03/16/1991 Jan H van Ro�en, diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies
03/16/1991 Wim van den Brink, actor (Turkish Fruit/Dig Up Sien), dies
03/16/1993 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies at 86
03/16/1993 Djilalli Lyab�s, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
03/16/1993 Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl, Deadly Mantis), dies
03/16/1993 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
03/16/1993 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
Significant Events:
03/16/1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
03/16/1190 Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
03/16/1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: 'the miracle of Amsterdam' (legend)
03/16/1621 1st Indian appears at Plymouth, Mass
03/16/1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
03/16/1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
03/16/1792 Murder attempt on king Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
03/16/1802 Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
03/16/1802 US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
03/16/1815 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
03/16/1827 'Freedom's Journal', 1st African-American newspaper, founded
03/16/1827 1st US black newspaper, 'Freedom's Journal' (NYC), begins publishing
03/16/1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
03/16/1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
03/16/1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
03/16/1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
03/16/1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
03/16/1865 Battle of Averasboro, NC
03/16/1869 Hiram R Revels makes the 1st official speech by a black in the Senat
03/16/1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
03/16/1881 Barnum & Baily Circus debuts
03/16/1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
03/16/1895 M Wolf discovers asteroid #401 Ottilia
03/16/1896 Premier of Mahlers 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen'
03/16/1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'The Adventure of The Devil's Foot' (BG)
03/16/1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
03/16/1911 Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 for the Stanley Cup
03/16/1915 British battle cruisers Irresistible approaches Dardanellen
03/16/1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
03/16/1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Par
03/16/1922 England recognizes Kingdom of Egypt under King Fuad I
03/16/1922 Sultan Foeud crowned king of Egypt
03/16/1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
03/16/1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters
03/16/1928 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1303 Luthera
03/16/1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
03/16/1931 C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #3754
03/16/1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
03/16/1931 Society of Our Language forms
03/16/1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of German Republic
03/16/1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
03/16/1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
03/16/1936 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1380 Volodia & #1392 Pierre
03/16/1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimage game between seniors &
03/16/1937 sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
03/16/1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
03/16/1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
03/16/1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
03/16/1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
03/16/1941 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj receives the Stalin Prize
03/16/1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
03/16/1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
03/16/1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
03/16/1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/16/1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R�union (world record)
03/16/1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
03/16/1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
03/16/1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
03/16/1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
03/16/1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
03/16/1962 USSR launch 1st Cosmos-satellite
03/16/1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
03/16/1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
03/16/1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
03/16/1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
03/16/1968 Mi-Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
03/16/1968 Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
03/16/1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
03/16/1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
03/16/1970 New English Bible published
03/16/1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
03/16/1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
03/16/1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
03/16/1972 T Gehrels discovers asteroid #2272
03/16/1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
03/16/1976 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
03/16/1977 US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
03/16/1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil
03/16/1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
03/16/1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
03/16/1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
03/16/1979 CBS-TV airs 'Wings Over the World' with Paul McCartney
03/16/1980 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroids #2902 Westerlund & #3634
03/16/1980 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3386
03/16/1983 E Barr discovers asteroid #3445
03/16/1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
03/16/1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
03/16/1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beiru
03/16/1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yr
03/16/1988 Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
03/16/1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
03/16/1991 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
03/16/1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
03/16/1991 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
03/16/1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted bal
03/16/1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
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