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03/16/1927
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Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1927
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Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1928
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Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1928
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Ramon Barce, composer
Type: Birth
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03/16/1929
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WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
Type: Event
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03/16/1929
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Edwin London, composer
Type: Birth
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03/16/1930
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USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
Type: Event
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03/16/1930
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Minoru Miky, composer
Type: Birth
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03/16/1930
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Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
Type: Death
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03/16/1931
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Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
Type: Event
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03/16/1931
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Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1931
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Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
Type: Birth
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03/16/1932
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Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1933
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Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
Type: Event
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03/16/1933
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1933
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Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
Type: Death
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03/16/1934
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Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Type: Event
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03/16/1935
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Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
Type: Event
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03/16/1935
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John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
Type: Death
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03/16/1936
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Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1937
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All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors and sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
Type: Event
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03/16/1937
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Constanca Capdeville, composer
Type: Birth
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03/16/1937
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David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1937
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J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
Type: Death
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03/16/1938
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No‰l Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
Type: Event
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03/16/1938
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Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
Type: Event
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03/16/1938
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Egon Friedell, writer, dies
Type: Death
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03/16/1939
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Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
Type: Event
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03/16/1939
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Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
Type: Event
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03/16/1939
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NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) and a record 26 points in the 3rd period
Type: Event
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03/16/1940
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German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
Type: Event
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03/16/1940
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1940
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Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1940
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Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1940
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Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1940
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Selma O Lagerl”f, Swed author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81
Type: Death
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03/16/1941
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Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60
Type: Event
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03/16/1941
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Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
Type: Event
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03/16/1941
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National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
Type: Event
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03/16/1941
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John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
Type: Death
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03/16/1942
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Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
Type: Death
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03/16/1943
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Elin K (No) and Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed and sinks
Type: Event
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03/16/1944
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Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
Type: Event
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03/16/1945
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Allies secure Iwo Jima
Type: Event
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03/16/1945
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B”rries von Mnchhausen, writer, dies
Type: Birth
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03/16/1945
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Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
Type: Death
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03/16/1946
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"Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
Type: Event
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03/16/1946
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Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross and Switchblade, Lightblast)
Type: Birth
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03/16/1946
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Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
Type: Death
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03/16/1947
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Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
Type: Event
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