355 Historic Events for March 16
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| 1927 |
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
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| 1927 |
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Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
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| 1928 |
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Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
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| 1928 |
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Ramon Barce, composer
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| 1929 |
Birth |
Edwin London, composer
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| 1929 |
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WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
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| 1930 |
Birth |
Minoru Miky, composer
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| 1930 |
Death |
Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
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| 1930 |
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USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
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| 1931 |
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Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
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| 1931 |
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Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
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| 1931 |
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Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
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| 1932 |
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Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
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| 1933 |
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Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
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| 1933 |
Death |
Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
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| 1933 |
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
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| 1934 |
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Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
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| 1935 |
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Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
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| 1935 |
Death |
John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
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| 1936 |
Birth |
Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
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| 1937 |
Death |
J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
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| 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
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| 1937 |
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Constanca Capdeville, composer
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| 1937 |
Birth |
David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
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| 1938 |
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No‰l Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
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