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Day in History: March 16th UN Human Rights Council Created and Much More
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March 16th is more then just the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in leap years). Find out all the important historical events that happened on March 16th. Remember, there are 290 days remaining to fulfill your New Years resolutions.
| | 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. |
| | 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established. |
| | 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published. |
| | 1855 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is founded. |
| | 1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. |
| | 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. |
| | 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. |
| | 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. |
| | 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. |
| | 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated. |
| | 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing. |
| | 1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead |
| | 1970 - Publication of complete New English Bible. |
| | 1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood. |
| | 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991. |
| | 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993). |
| | 1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. |
| | 1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. |
| | 2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey. |
| | 2002 - Brittanie Cecil, age 13, is struck by a hockey puck while watching an NHL game in Columbus, Ohio. She dies from her injuries two days later. |
| | 2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control |
| | 2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. |
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