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Events on March 16

• 1521 The Portuguese seafarer Ferdinand Magellan, sailing under the Spanish flag, discovers the Philippines.
• 1831 Victor Hugo publishes his historical novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) in Paris.
• 1926 The American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard conducts the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket with the support of the Smithsonian Institution.
• 1935 Following the German Reich's official declaration that the Treaty of Versailles was null and void, Adolf Hitler orders the reintroduction of universal conscription. At the same time, the Reichswehr is renamed the Wehrmacht.
• 1939 The Second Czechoslovak Republic, occupied by the German Wehrmacht the previous day in violation of the Munich Agreement of September 1938, is dissolved and declared by Adolf Hitler to be the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia within the Greater German Reich. At the same time, the Carpathian Ukraine is occupied and annexed by Hungary.
• 1945 The city of Würzburg is more than 80 percent destroyed by British bombing. Around 5000 people lose their lives.
• 1968 During the Vietnam War, members of the US Army kill more than 500 men, women, and children in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai in order to improve military statistics, identifying them as members of the Viet Cong. Only the active intervention of helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. ends the massacre at Mỹ Lai.
• 1978 The former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the terrorist group Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades). He is found murdered 55 days later.
• 1982 In the run-up to documenta 7, Joseph Beuys plants the first tree of his 7000 Oaks project – City Afforestation Instead of City Administration.
• 1996 Mike Tyson wins his boxing match against Frank Bruno at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas by technical knockout and becomes the world heavyweight champion.
• 2018 Following the move of Bavaria's incumbent Minister-President Horst Seehofer to Berlin as Federal Minister of the Interior, the state parliament elects Markus Söder as his successor at the Maximilianeum.
• 2020 Because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bavaria, a state of emergency is declared throughout the state.

Born on March 16

• 1872 Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen, German gynecologist
• 1900 Werner Eggerath, German writer, resistance fighter, diplomat, and politician
• 1911 Josef Mengele, German physician and war criminal
• 1920 Traudl Junge, German private secretary to Adolf Hitler
• 1930 Lotte Ledl, Austrian actress
• 1931 Ernst Hilbich, German actor
• 1940 Claus Offe, German political scientist
• 1971 David Nathan, German dubbing actor
• 1991 Admir Mehmedi, Swiss footballer
• 2000 Julian Köster, German handball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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