Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 16

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 * 597 BC – Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
 * 1190 – Around 150 Jews died inside York Castle, the majority committing mass suicide to avoid being killed by a mob.
 * 1322 – Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.
 * 1621 – Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (depicted).
 * 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán from England off the coast of what is now Honduras.
 * 1802 – Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy (pictured) at West Point, New York.
 * 1872 – In the inaugural final of the FA Cup (trophy pictured) Wanderers defeated Royal Engineers 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
 * 1935 – Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.
 * 1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.


 * 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
 * 2001 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.
 * 2003 – American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house.


 * Born/died this day: |Jean de Brébeuf |d|1649|John Leverett |d|1678/79| Caroline Herschel |b|1750| Anna Atkins |b|1799| John Pope |b|1822| Iso Rae |d|1940| Jorge Ramos |b|1958| Sienna Guillory |b|1975| Mary Meader |d|2008 | Rock-Olga |b|1940 |Manjural Islam Rana |d|2007