What are the important events that happened on March 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 16 is the 75^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,034,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontapentagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 338 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,468 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 16 Historical Events

• 1689 –
  The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
• 1782 –
  American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
• 1872 –
  The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
• 1912 –
  Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
• 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.
• 1945 –
  World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
• 1976 –
  British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
• 1978 –
  Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
• 1978 –
  Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
• 2005 –
  Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.

Who were born on March 16?

• 1906 –
  Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
• 1916 –
  Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (d.2010)
• 1920 –
  John Addison, British composer (d. 1998)
• 1922 –
  Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright
• 1948 –
  Michael Bruce, American musician (Alice Cooper)
• 1958 –
  Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
• 1975 –
  Sienna Guillory, British actress
• 1977 –
  Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler
• 1979 –
  Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
• 1981 –
  Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

Who died on March 16?

• 1021 –
  Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
• 1457 –
  László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
• 1890 –
  Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
• 1926 –
  Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
• 1945 –
  Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
• 1961 –
  Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
• 1975 –
  T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
• 1983 –
  Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 1998 –
  Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
• 2005 –
  Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)