Page 8: Historical Events In March - 16

1966  On this day in 1966 General Motors produced its 100000000th car, an Oldsmobile Toronado   

1967  Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down   

1967  Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada   

1967  james Friskin, composer, dies at 80.   

1968  During the Vietnam War, a U.S. Army platoon from Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, massacres over four hundred unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in the district of Song My   

1968  my Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.   

1968  Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign   

1968  june Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60.   

1969  Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155   

1970  New English Bible published   

1970  arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61.   

1971  13th Grammy Awards Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win.   

1971  the inaugural SH-2D Lamps (Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System) helicopter test flight took place at Kaman's Bloomfield, Connecticut Facility.   

1971  Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70   

1971  13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win   

1972  John and Yoko are served with deportation papers   

1972  Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72   

1973  carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79.   

1974  The inaugural performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville   

1975  uS Mariner 10 makes 3rd and final fly-by of Mercury.   

1975  T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64   

1976  British premier Harold Wilson steps down   

1977  uS President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland.   

1978  Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast   

1978  red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed.   

1978  soyuz 26 returns to Earth.   

1978  uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

1978  Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists   

1979  CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney   

1979  jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90.   

1980  in this year, Joanne Carner claims LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic.   

1983  Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79   

1984  Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut   

1984  south-Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty.   

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1338  Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401) was born on this day in history.   

1445  On this day in history birth of johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)   

1473  Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541) was born on this day in history.   

1581  Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647) was born on this day in history.   

1585  On March - 16 birth of gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)   

1609  Michael Franck, composer was born on this day in history.   

1631  René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680) was born on this day in history.   

1634  On March - 16 birth of contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist   

0455  On March - 16 death of valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)   

1021  On March - 16 death of heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III   

1037  On March - 16 death of robert I, Archbishop of Rouen   

1072  On this day in history adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies   

1322  On this day in history death of humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)   

1410  On March - 16 death of john Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)   

1485  On this day in history death of anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)   

1536  On March - 16 death of ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45