Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: March 16
March 16, 2025 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Pisces is your zodiac sign. Aquamarine is your modern birthstone. Jade is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: March 16
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1926 –History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
- 1976 –British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
- 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.
Who were born on March 16?
- 1839 –René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
- 1925 –Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
- 1927 –Olga San Juan, American comedian (d. 2009)
- 1933 –Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
- 1942 –James Soong, Taiwanese politician
- 1948 –Margaret Weis, American author
- 1961 –Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book artist, writer and media entrepreneur
- 1968 –Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
- 1979 –Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1986 –Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
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