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Events

• 1898 (128 years ago) In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[page needed]
• 1935 (91 years ago) Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
• 1968 (58 years ago) Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.
• 1978 (48 years ago) A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
• 1988 (38 years ago) Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
• 2014 (12 years ago) Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
• 2025 (a year ago) A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

Births

• 1751 (275 years ago) James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)
• 1789 (237 years ago) Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (died 1854)
• 1839 (187 years ago) Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (died 2017)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2018)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer
• 1959 (67 years ago) Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway, 13th Secretary General of NATO
• 1965 (61 years ago) Mark Carney, Canadian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Canada

Deaths

• 37 (1989 years ago) Tiberius, Roman emperor (born 42 BC)
• 455 (1571 years ago) Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated; b. 419)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)
• 1935 (91 years ago) John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)

All 523 events, births and deaths of March 16