Today is March 16, 2021, take you to see this day in history.
Significant events
1521 - Magellan arrives in the Philippines.
1802 – U.S. President Thomas Jefferson signs a decree establishing the West Point Military Academy.
1872 – The inaugural FA Cup final is held in London, where the Rovers defeat the Royal Engineers 1-0.
1908 – Nightingale is awarded the City of London Freedom Prize.
1914 – The Arms Race and War Rhetoric escalate in Europe.
1915 – Shanghai launches a boycott of Japanese goods.
1916 - The literary genre Dadaism is born in France.
1917 - Russian Tsar abdicates.
1926 - The world's first liquid rocket built by American inventor Goddard takes off.
1935 – Germany does not accept the disarmament clause in the Treaty of Versailles.
1950 - Mathematician Hua Luogeng returns to Beijing from the United States.
1978 – Italian Prime Minister Moreau is kidnapped by the terrorist group Red Brigades.
1988 – The Last Emperor wins nine awards at the 60th Academy Awards.
1996 – Chinese mainland's first TV talk show, Tell the Truth, aired on CCTV-1.
2009 – Russia begins an eight-day large-scale military exercise at the Yurkynski Range in Siberia.
2009 – The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Ahmad Al-Sabah, presented the resignation of the entire Cabinet to the Amir (Head of State), and the Amir accepted the request.
2009 – Malagasy's opposition-supporting armed forces occupy the Presidential Palace in the heart of the capital, Antananarivo.
2012 – The new IPad (also known as the Ipad3) goes on sale.
2012 – Japan's Shinkansen 300 series vehicles complete their last commercial operation and are subsequently decommissioned.
2016 – A car bomb blast in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 16 people and injured more than 20 others.
2017 – At least 42 people were killed in airstrikes on a mosque in Syria.
2018 – A Man in the UK drives into a nightclub and injures 13 police say it was not a terrorist attack.
2020 – At least 4 prisons in the Brazilian state of São Paulo were escaped, with 400, 926 and 30 fugitives, for a total of 1,356 people.
2021 – A university car is attacked in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan. A group of militants in a car opened fire on a school bus at Baghlan University, and the militants fled the scene after committing the crime. The incident killed 2 people and injured 6 others.
2021 – A sudden explosion at a house in Ontario, California, containing a large number of illegal fireworks. Police said the blast was caused by commercial-grade fireworks lit in the residence. The incident resulted in the death of 2 people on the spot.
2021 – Three shootings in the Atlanta area of Georgia, USA. A total of eight people died in the shooting, six of whom were Asian women.
Birth characters
94 BC – Liu Fuling, emperor of the Han Dynasty, was born.
1774 – British navigator Matthew Flinders is born.
1787 – German physicist Ohm is born.
1839 – Sully Prudhom, the first Nobel laureate in literature, is born.
1859 – Russian physicist Alexander Stapanović Popov.
1908 - Chinese electrical engineering expert Chu Yinghuang was born.
1915: Japanese mathematician Kunihiko Kodaira was born.
1940 – Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci is born.
1941 - Hong Kong writer and lyricist Wong Chun is born.
1949 – Canadian actor and singer Victor Gabo is born.
1964 - The famous American male director Gore Wibbinski is born.
1967 - Chinese mainland actress He Yin was born.
1971 - Born in Japanese actress Tatsue Kimura.
1974 - Lu Yiming, a program host of China Central Television, was born.
1975 - The famous British actress Sienna Gelley is born.
1976 - Japanese voice actress Ken Nojima is born.
1977 - Japanese actor and singer Takashi Kashiwara is born.
1978 – British avant-garde theatre and opera director and playwright Sophie Hunt is born.
1981 - Chinese mainland male host Hua Shao was born.
1983 - Chinese mainland male director and screenwriter Tian Yusheng was born.
1984 - Chinese original singer Ma Bo is born.
1984 – South Korean actress Kim Min-soo is born.
1986 – American star Alexandra Dadario is born.
1986 – NBA New York Knicks player Tony Douglas is born.
1987 – Estonian supermodel Dill Trirk is born.
1987 - Chinese original singer Li Xiaoyun is born.
1989 – English footballer Theo Walcott is born.
1989 – NBA superstar Blake Griffin is born.
1990 - Chinese mainland female model and actress Li Xinyue was born.
1991 - Taiwanese female writer Lin Yihan was born.
1994 - Chinese actress and singer Li Yichen was born.
1995 - Chinese actress and singer Xu Xiaohan is born.
1995 - Mao Weijia, a member of AKB48 Team SH, is born.
1996 - Chinese actress Zhao Luoran is born.
1996 - Chinese female gymnast Shang Chunsong is born.
1997 - Chinese actor Ji Li is born.
2000 - IdolSchool member Wang Haoxuan is born.
2001 - Luwen Gong, a member of AKB48 Team SH, is born.
Deceased characters
1930 – Spanish dictator De Rivera dies.
1940 - Selma Lagrove dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
1962 - Hu Peiheng, a modern Chinese painter, dies.
2004 - Chinese Go Amateur 7 Dan, amateur world champion Liu Jun dies.
2006 - Hong Kong football defender, known as "Tan Copperhead", the father of Hong Kong entertainer Tam Wing Lin, Tam Kong Kong Pak, passed away.
2006 - Chinese writer Huang Yuxue dies.
2009 – Music educator Lin Yiu-ki dies.
2010 - Li Leishi, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, International Nephrologist, Founder of Kidney Therapy in China.
2011 - Taiwan's earliest composer and arranger Chen Zhiyuan dies.
2017 – American blues musician James Cotton dies at the age of 81.
2020 – Film director Zhao Yuan dies in Beijing at the age of 94.
2020 – Francisco Garcia, the youth coach of Atlético Potada Alta, a club in Malaga, dies of COVID-19 at the age of 21.
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