16 March
Notable Births
Kyle Hamilton
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Jalen Smith
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
b. 1999
Dominican-Canadian baseball player (born 1999)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Florian Neuhaus
b. 1997
German footballer (born 1997)
Ajiona Alexus
b. 1996
American actress (born 1996)
Ivan Toney
b. 1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Inga Janulevičiūtė
b. 1995
Lithuanian figure skater (born 1995)
Camilo (singer)
b. 1994
Colombian singer
Joel Embiid
b. 1994
Cameroonian-American basketball player (born 1994)
Sierra McClain
b. 1994
American actress and singer (born 1994)
George Ford (rugby union)
b. 1993
English rugby union player (born 1993)
Marine Lorphelin
b. 1993
French model; Miss France 2013
Tim Hardaway Jr.
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Chris Boswell
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Reggie Bullock
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Admir Mehmedi
b. 1991
Swiss footballer (born 1991)
Wolfgang Van Halen
b. 1991
American musician
Josh Johnson (comedian)
b. 1990
American comedian and writer (born 1990)
Andre Young (basketball)
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Émilie Dequenne
d. 2025
Belgian actress (1981–2025)
Jesse Colin Young
d. 2025
American musician (1941–2025)
Dick Dale
d. 2019
American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)
Louise Slaughter
d. 2018
American politician (1929–2018)
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
d. 2016
Russian-American poet and mathematician
Frank Sinatra Jr.
d. 2016
American singer, songwriter, and conductor (1944–2016)
Jack Haley (basketball)
d. 2015
American professional basketball player (born 1964)
Don Robertson (songwriter)
d. 2015
American songwriter and pianist (1922–2015)
Gary Bettenhausen
d. 2014
American racing driver
Donald Crothers
d. 2014
Alexander Pochinok
d. 2014
Russian politician (1958–2014)
Jamal Nazrul Islam
d. 2013
Bangladeshi theoretical physicist and mathematician (1939-2013)
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz
d. 2013
Argentine lawyer, businessman, and economist (1925–2013)
Yadier Pedroso
d. 2013
Cuban baseball player (1986–2013)
Marina Solodkin
d. 2013
Israeli politician (1952–2013)
Frank Thornton
d. 2013
English actor (1921–2013)
Donald E. Hillman
d. 2012
Takaaki Yoshimoto
d. 2012
Japanese poet and philosopher
Richard Wirthlin
d. 2011
American pollster
Ksenija Pajčin
d. 2010
Musical artist
On This Day in History
All 54 ›2026
A series of Boko Haram bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
2026 Maiduguri bombings
2025
A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.
Kočani nightclub fire
2022
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.
2022 Fukushima earthquake
2022
Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.
Mariupol theatre airstrike
2021
Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.
2021 Atlanta spa shootings
2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.
2020 stock market crash
2016
A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.
2016 Peshawar bus bombing
2016
Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.
March 2016 Maiduguri bombings
2014
Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
Crimea
2012
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
2010
The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.
Kasubi Tombs
2005
Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
Israel
2003
American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.
Rachel Corrie
2002
Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Sofia Gubaidulina
2001
A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
2001 Shijiazhuang bombings
1995
Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
Mississippi
1988
Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Iran–Contra affair
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 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
Halabja massacre
1988
The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
The Troubles
1985
Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.
Associated Press