March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- March 16, 1899 At the request of Wilhelm II, a comprehensive meeting was held between the General Manager of the Deutsche Bank, Siemens, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the subject of the Baghdad Railway.Train travel guide
- 16 March 1920 Allied Powers took measures against the Delegation after they officially occupied Istanbul. Mustafa Kemal Pasha wanted the following measures to be taken in his telegram: “The invasion of Geyve Strait by the national forces and the destruction of the lightning bridge, Geyve, Ankara, the arrest of the Allied forces along the line, the Anatolian line commissioner deputy in Konya, immediately to the trains. it would ensure its operation by confiscating it. ” The bridge between Çiftehan-Ulukışla was blown up. This prevented the French from entering the interior areas.
Events
- 597 BC – Babylonian Exile: After the Babylonian conquest of the Kingdom of Judah, the Jews were exiled to Babylon.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives on the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
- 1909 - Germany's national football team suffered the most distinctive defeat in its history against England: 9-0.
- 1914 – Mustafa Hayri Efendi from Ürgüp was appointed as Şeyhülislam.
- 1920 – The Allies occupied Istanbul.
- 1921 – The USSR officially recognized the Ankara Government; The Moscow Treaty was signed.
- 1924 – After the adoption of the Law of Unification of Education (March 3), madrasahs were closed.
- 1924 - Italy annexed Rijeka in line with the Treaty of Rome.
- 1926 - Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket.
- 1930 - The Cuban national football team made its international debut against Jamaica and won 3-1.
- 1932 – Ankara Demirspor was founded.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler announces that he has canceled the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1939 - Hitler announced at Prague Castle that he had taken Bohemia and Morayva under German protection.
- 1939 – II. World War II: German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 – Princess of Egypt Fevziye Fuad and Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi got married.
- 1945 – II. World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, although little Japanese resistance remains.
- 1964 – In the extraordinary meeting held in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Government was given the authority to intervene in Cyprus when necessary.
- 1968 - United States president Johnson decides to send 35.000 to 50.000 more troops to Vietnam.
- 1968 – The My Lai massacre took place during the Vietnam War.
- 1971 – Deniz Gezmiş and Yusuf Aslan were caught after a clash with the gendarmerie in Gemerek, Sivas.
- 1972 – Senate of the Republic; Deniz Gezmiş approved the death sentence for Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin Inan.
- 1978 – March 16 Massacre: 7 students died in a bomb attack on students in front of Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy.
- 1978 – In Italy, former Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
- 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The Chinese People's Liberation Army returns to its country. The war is over.
- 1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 33 prisoners escaped from Van Prison by digging a tunnel.
- 1988 – On the orders of Saddam Hussein, poison gas attack was carried out in Halabja.
- 1993 – Efes Pilsen, the first Turkish basketball team to reach the final in the European Clubs Cup, lost to Greece's Aris team and came second: 50-48.
- 1999 – 70-day air campaign launched against Serbian forces in Kosovo.
- 2003 - Rachel Corrie is crushed to death by Israeli tanks.
- 2004 – 8 out of 5 Chinese workers were killed and 3 were injured in the firedamp explosion at the Karadon mine of the Turkish Hard Coal Corporation.
- 2005 – Israel officially handed over Jericho to the Palestinian Authority.
- 2014 – Crimea agrees to leave Ukraine and pass to Russia in a controversial referendum.
- 2022 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,3 occurred in Fukushima, Japan. 3 people died and 198 people were injured.
Births
- 1399 – Xuande, fifth emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (d. 1435)
- 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
- 1751 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1755 – Jakob Laurenz Custer, Swiss botanist (d. 1828)
- 1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835)
- 1774 – Matthew Flinders, British Royal Navy colonel, sailor, and cartographer (d. 1814)
- 1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
- 1789 – Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872)
- 1794 – Ami Boué, Austrian geoscientist (d. 1881)
- 1796 – Cincinnato Baruzzi, Italian sculptor (d. 1878)
- 1800 – Ninkō, 120th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 1846)
- 1810 – Robert Curzon, British diplomat and traveler (d. 1873)
- 1813 – Gaëtan de Rochebouët, French politician (d. 1899)
- 1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
- 1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
- 1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian publisher and writer (d. 1918)
- 1853 William Eagle Clarke, British ornithologist (d. 1938)
- 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
- 1862 – Wil van Gogh, Dutch nurse and early feminist (d. 1941)
- 1874 – Frédéric François-Marsal, French politician (d. 1958)
- 1878 – Henry B. Walthall, American artist and film actor (d. 1936)
- 1879 – Mark Sykes, English author, diplomat, soldier, and traveler (d. 1919)
- 1883 – Rudolf John Gorsleben, German Ariosophist, Armanist (prayer of Armanen runes), magazine editor, and playwright (d. 1930)
- 1890 – Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet Jewish actor and artistic director (d. 1948)
- 1892 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet and writer (d. 1938)
- 1896 – Otto Hofman, civil servant in Nazi Germany (d. 1982)
- 1897 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (d. 1963)
- 1907 – Arkadi Vasilyev, Soviet writer (d. 1972)
- 1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1966)
- 1909 – Nubar Terziyan, Armenian-born Turkish film actor (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer, Christian Democrat politician and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1911 – Josef Mengele, German (Nazi) physician (d. 1979)
- 1912 – Pat Nixon, wife of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Haldun Taner, Turkish writer (d. 1986)
- 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, American radio, stage, film and television actress (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, former Iranian politician and minister (d. 2018)
- 1918 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist (d. 1998)
- 1920 – Traudl Junge, a German editor who served as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945 (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-born German actor (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor, comedian, and singer (d. 2017)
- 1927 Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
- 1928 – Christa Ludwig, German opera singer (d. 2021)
- 1929 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (d. 2023)
- 1931 – Tevfik Gelenbe, Turkish theater actor and actor (d. 2004)
- 1931 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater actor (d. 2009)
- 1932 – Walter Cunningham, American NASA astronaut (d. 2023)
- 1933 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish opera singer and educator (d. 2022)
- 1936 – Raymond Damadian, American physician of Armenian origin, medical doctor (d. 2022)
- 1937 – Attilio Nicora, Italian Vatican cleric and cardinal (d. 2017)
- 1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist (d. 1996)
- 1939 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian football player and coach
- 1940 – Vakıf Mustafazade, Azerbaijani composer, pianist (d. 1979)
- 1941 – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director (d. 2018)
- 1941 – Robert Guéï, Ivory Coast soldier and politician (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, American country singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
- 1943 – Murat Belge, Turkish writer, translator, political activist and academic
- 1944 – Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist
- 1946 – Mustafa Alabora, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and voice actor
- 1948 – Tomris İncer, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (d. 2015)
- 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian television actor and singer
- 1950 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
- 1951 – Abdülmecid Burbu, Algerian national football player
- 1953 – Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- 1953 – Richard Matthew Stallman, American free software activist and founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation
- 1955 – Linda Lepomme, Belgian singer
- 1956 – Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician
- 1959 – Savina Yannatu, Greek singer
- 1965 – Mustafa Taşkesen, Turkish bureaucrat
- 1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
- 1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
- 1973 – Kutsi, Turkish singer, composer, actor and songwriter
- 1974 – Anne Charrier, French actress
- 1975 – Luciano Castro, Argentine actor
- 1975 – Sienna Guillory, English actress and model
- 1976 – Gökcen Özdoğan Enç, Turkish politician
- 1979 – Leena Peisa, Finnish musician, songwriter
- 1980 – Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
- 1980 – Bahri Tanrıkulu, Turkish taekwondo athlete
- 1981 – Katie May, American model and businesswoman (d. 2016)
- 1986 – Alexandra Daddario, American actress
- 1986 - Toney Douglas, American professional basketball player
- 1986 – Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
- 1987 – Fabien Lemoine, French football player
- 1989 – Blake Griffin, American professional basketball player
- 1989 – Jung So-min, South Korean actor
- 1989 – Theo Walcott, English football player
- 1990 – Josef Hušbauer, Czech football player
- 1991 - Reggie Bullock, American professional basketball player
- 1994 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian professional basketball player
- 1997 – Florian Neuhaus, German national football player
- 1998 – Sefo, Turkish rapper
- 2000 – Umut Güneş, Turkish football player
Deaths
- 37 – Tiberius, Roman Emperor (b. 42 BC)
- 455 – III. Valentinian, Western Roman Emperor (b. 419)
- 1185 – IV. Baudouin, ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185 (b. 1161)
- 1485 – Anne Neville, Princess of Wales, Queen of England (b. 1456)
- 1608 – Seonjo, 14th king of the Joseon Kingdom (b. 1552)
- 1649 – Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1664 – Ivan Vykhovsky, Kazakh hetman (b. ?)
- 1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian musician (b. 1710)
- 1822 – Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan, French educator and author (b. 1752)
- 1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author (b. 1872)
- 1913 – Tatyos Efendi, Ottoman Armenian musician (b. 1858)
- 1914 – Albert Gobat, Swiss author, educational administrator and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1843)
- 1919 – Yakov Sverdlov, Jewish Russian revolutionary (b. 1885)
- 1929 – Kel Hasan Efendi, Turkish bath maker (b. 1865)
- 1935 – John James Richard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine and discoverer of Insulin) (b. 1876)
- 1938 – Egon Friedell, Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer and theater critic (b. 1878)
- 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, first Swedish woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1858)
- 1944 – Mehmed Abdulkadir Efendi, II. Son of Abdülhamid and Bidâr Kadınefendi (b. 1878)
- 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French painter (b. 1914)
- 1957 – Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian sculptor and pioneer of contemporary abstract sculpture (b. 1876)
- 1966 – Emin Türk Elinç, Turkish writer (b. 1906)
- 1988 – Erich Probst, Austrian football player (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Pertev Naili Boratav, Turkish folklore researcher (b. 1907)
- 2000 – Thomas Ferebee, American pilot (bomber of the Enola Gay that dropped the Atomic bomb) (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American peace activist (crushed by Israeli tanks) (b. 1979)
- 2010 – Ksenija Pajcin, Serbian singer (b. 1977)
- 2015 – Firuz Çilingiroğlu, Turkish lawyer and Honorary Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (b. 1924)
- 2016 – Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and musician (b. 1944)
- 2017 – Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (1938)
- 2018 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2019 – Dick Dale, American rock guitarist and musician (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Richard Erdman, American actor, comedian, producer and director (b. 1925)
- 2019 – Barbara Hammer, American film producer and director (b. 1939)
- 2019 – Tom Hatten, American stage, television, film actor, radio and television host (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Yann-Fañch Kemener, French singer and musician (b. 1957)
- 2019 – Mohammed Mahmud Veled Luli, Mauritanian soldier and statesman (b. 1943)
- 2019 – Yuliya Nachalova, Soviet-Russian singer, actress and television presenter (b. 1981)
- 2020 – Nicolas Alfonsi, French politician and lawyer (b. 1936)
- 2020 – Sergio Bassi, Italian folk-rock singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
- 2020 – Menachem Friedman, Israeli sociologist and academic (b. 1936)
- 2020 – Hashim Betahi Gulpayegani, representative of Tehran Province to the Iranian Assembly of Experts (b. 1941)
- 2020 – Francesco Saverio Pavone, Italian lawyer (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Saskia Post, Australian actress (b. 1961)
- 2020 – Fariborz Raisdana, Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2021 – Amaranth Ehrenhalt, American painter, sculptor, and writer (b. 1928)
- 2021 – Mauro Favilla, Italian politician (b. 1934)
- 2021 – Erhan Önal, Turkish former football player, football manager and football commentator (b. 1957)
- 2021 – Sabine Schmitz, German speedway and television presenter (b. 1969)
- 2022 – Slobodan Škrbić, former Yugoslav national football player of Serbian descent (b. 1944)
- 2023 – Ángel Fournier, Cuban professional rower (b. 1987)
- 2023 – Claude Fournier, Canadian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (b. 1931)
- 2023 – Patrick French, English writer, historian and academic (b. 1966)
- 2023 – Nani Wijaya, Indonesian actress and model (b. 1944)
- 2024 – David Seidler, British-American playwright and Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay (b. 1937)
Holidays and special occasions
- Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Khorasan district of Erzurum (1918)
