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The following events took place on March 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.

• 1940

  First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
• 1942

  The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
• 1945

  World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
• 1945

  Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
• 1950

  Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
• 1958

  The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
• 1962

  A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• 1966

  Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
• 1968

  Vietnam War: In the My Lai Massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• 1968

  General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
• 1969

  A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
• 1976

  British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
• 1977

  Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
• 1978

  Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
• 1978

  Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
• 1979

  Sino-Vietnamese War: The People’s Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• 1983

  Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
• 1984

  William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
• 1985

  Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
• 1988

  Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• 1988

  Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
• 1988

  The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
• 1989

  In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
• 1995

  Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
• 2003

  Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
• 2005

  Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
• 2014

  Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

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