Also on March 16
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Benito Juárez's birthday (MX) · Natalicio de Benito Juárez (MX)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Lailat-ul-Qadr major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2016 — A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54. ↗
- 2016 — Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and... ↗
- 2014 — Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. ↗
- 2005 — Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. ↗
- 1995 — Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1997 — Florian Neuhaus, German football player
- 1995 — Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
- 1994 — Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1993 — George Ford, English rugby union player
- 1993 — Marine Lorphelin, Miss France