1932 - Baruch Modan, Israeli scientist (d. 2001)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1631 - Ren Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1941 - Robert Gu, ruler of Cte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, professor and author
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1944 - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American Computer Science Professor, Author of MINIX OS
1946 - Michael Basman, English chess master
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1927 - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1961 - Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1931 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1966 - David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1839 - Ren F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1967 - John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 - Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1969 - Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1940 - Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter
1971 - Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1974 - Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 - Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1976 - Abraham Nez, Dominican baseball player
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1949 - Victor Garber, Montreal Quebec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1977 - Donal g Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress
1951 - Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1979 - Edison Mndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1954 - Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1957 - Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1989 - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer
597 BC - Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37 - Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
1190 - Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 - The Long Parliament dissolved.
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
1802 - The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeated Chileans under Jos de San Martn.
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 - The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1939 - From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 - First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1942 - The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 - Ninety percent of Wrzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 - Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
1963 - Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 - General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 - Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
1978 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1995 - Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
2005 - Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1631 - Ren Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1941 - Robert Gu, ruler of Cte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, professor and author
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1944 - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American Computer Science Professor, Author of MINIX OS
1946 - Michael Basman, English chess master
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1927 - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1961 - Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1931 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1966 - David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1839 - Ren F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1967 - John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 - Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1969 - Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1940 - Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter
1971 - Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1974 - Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 - Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1976 - Abraham Nez, Dominican baseball player
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1949 - Victor Garber, Montreal Quebec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1977 - Donal g Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress
1951 - Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1979 - Edison Mndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1954 - Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1957 - Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1989 - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer
597 BC - Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37 - Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
1190 - Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 - The Long Parliament dissolved.
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
1802 - The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeated Chileans under Jos de San Martn.
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1912 - Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 - The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1939 - From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 - First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1942 - The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 - Ninety percent of Wrzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 - Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 - The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
1963 - Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 - General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 - Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
1978 - Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1995 - Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
2005 - Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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