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03/16/1829
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Ohio authorizes high school night classes
Type: Event
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03/16/1830
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London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
Type: Event
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03/16/1830
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New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
Type: Event
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03/16/1832
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Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1833
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Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
Type: Event
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03/16/1834
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HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
Type: Event
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03/16/1836
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Texas approves a constitution
Type: Event
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03/16/1836
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Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1838
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Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
Type: Death
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03/16/1839
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Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1841
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F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
Type: Death
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03/16/1843
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Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
Type: Death
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03/16/1849
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James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
Type: Birth
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03/16/1850
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
Type: Event
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03/16/1856
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E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
Type: Birth
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03/16/1861
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Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
Type: Event
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03/16/1861
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Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
Type: Event
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03/16/1862
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Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
Type: Event
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03/16/1865
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Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
Type: Event
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03/16/1867
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Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
Type: Death
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03/16/1868
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Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]
Type: Birth
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03/16/1869
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Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
Type: Event
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03/16/1871
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1st fertilizer law enacted
Type: Event
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03/16/1872
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1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
Type: Event
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03/16/1873
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Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1876
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Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
Type: Event
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03/16/1876
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Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1877
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Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
Type: Event
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03/16/1878
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Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
Type: Birth
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03/16/1878
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Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1878
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Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
Type: Birth
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03/16/1878
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William Banting, English undertaker, dies
Type: Death
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03/16/1881
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Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts
Type: Event
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03/16/1881
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Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
Type: Death
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03/16/1882
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US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
Type: Event
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03/16/1882
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Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73
Type: Death
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03/16/1884
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Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1885
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Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
Type: Birth
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03/16/1885
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Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1887
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Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
Type: Death
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03/16/1892
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C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1892
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Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1893
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Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1894
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Jules Massenet's opera "Tha‹s," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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03/16/1896
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Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
Type: Event
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03/16/1896
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Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1897
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
Type: Event
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03/16/1898
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Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
Type: Death
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03/16/1900
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AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
Type: Event
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03/16/1900
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Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
Type: Event
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