March 16th, 1941

Born on March 16th, 1941

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What happened on March 16th, 1941?

March 16th, 1941

Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Appearance

March 16th, 1941

World War II: Operation Appearance took place to re-establish British Somaliland in Africa.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What else happened on March 16th?

March 16th, 2014

Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a controversial referendum in which voters overwhelmingly chose to join Russia as a federal subject.

March 16th, 2003

American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house.

March 16th, 2002

Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg, together with her Johannes-Passion, by soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.

March 16th, 1984

William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.

March 16th, 1968

Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.

March 16th, 1962

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.

March 16th, 1935

Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.

March 16th, 1872

In the inaugural final of the FA Cup Wanderers defeated Royal Engineers 1–0 in London.

March 16th, 1802

Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy (pictured) at West Point, New York.

March 16th, 1782

American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán from England off the coast of what is now Honduras.

March 16th, 1689

The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.

March 16th, 1621

Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (depicted).

March 16th, 1322

Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 16th

Born on March 16th, 1941

61

Robert Guéï

Ivorian politician (1941-2002)

*March 16th, 1941, Man †September 19th, 2002, Cocody

77

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)

*March 16th, 1941, Parma †November 22nd, 2018, Rome

85

Graziella Granata

Italian actress

*March 16th, 1941, Rome

85

Hannes Heer

German historian

*March 16th, 1941, Wissen

85

Chuck Woolery

American former game show host, talk show host, and musician (born March 16, 1941)

*March 16th, 1941, Ashland

85

Gyula O. H. Katona

Hungarian mathematician

*March 16th, 1941, Budapest

85

William H. Miller

American chemist

*March 16th, 1941, Kosciusko

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76

Rolf Zacher

German actor (1941–2018)

*March 28th, 1941, Berlin †February 3rd, 2018, Hamburg

85

Volker Fadinger

German classical scholar and historian

*February 7th, 1941, Schulzendorf

80

Dieter Wedel

German director and screenwriter

*November 12th, 1941, Frankfurt †July 13th, 2022, Hamburg

84

Bernie Sanders

United States Senator from Vermont since 2007

*September 8th, 1941, Brooklyn

85

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

*May 24th, 1941, Duluth

85

Sergio Mattarella

President of Italy since 2015

*July 23rd, 1941, Palermo

70

Cesária Évora

Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (1941–2011)

*August 27th, 1941, Mindelo †December 17th, 2011, Mindelo

75

Nicole Leblanc

Canadian actress

*September 2nd, 1941, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine †May 23rd, 2017, Montreal

82

Frank Farian

German music producer (1941–2024)

*July 18th, 1941, Kirn †January 23rd, 2024, Miami

75

Gary Austin

American theatre director (1941-2017)

*October 18th, 1941, Duncan †April 1st, 2017, Los Angeles

85

Karin Tietze-Ludwig

German television presenter

*May 31st, 1941, Siegen

85

Faye Dunaway

American actress

*January 14th, 1941, Bascom

82

Diethelm Ferner

German association football player and manager

*July 13th, 1941 †November 7th, 2023

75

Jared Martin

American actor (1941-2017)

*December 21st, 1941, Queens †May 24th, 2017, Philadelphia

80

Anne Rice

American writer

*October 4th, 1941, New Orleans †December 11th, 2021, Rancho Mirage

85

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

84

Martha Stewart

American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former fashion model

*August 3rd, 1941, Jersey City

70

Kim Jong-il

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

*February 16th, 1941, Vyatskoye †December 17th, 2011, Pyongyang

85

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

80

David Warner

British actor (1941–2022)

*July 29th, 1941, Manchester †July 24th, 2022, Northwood

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