Sunday, March 16, 1687 is a Sunday. It is day 75 of 1687 (20.5% through the year), ISO week 11, in Q1.
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Historical Milestones
Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were fired as judges on the second series of The X Factor New Zealand, following public backlash over comments they made to a contestant during the first live show.
Teddy Sinclair →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.
Rachel Corrie →Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg, together with her Johannes-Passion, by soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.
Sofia Gubaidulina →A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.
2001 Shijiazhuang bombings →Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
Iran–Iraq War →Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.
Michael Stone (loyalist) →William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
William Francis Buckley →Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
Aldo Moro →Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.
Vietnam War →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.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 →African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
African Americans →World War II: Operation Appearance took place to re-establish British Somaliland in Africa.
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Questions & Answers
Sunday, March 16, 1687 falls on a Sunday.
123,997 days ago (339 years, 5 months, 27 days ago). It is day 75 of 1687 with 290 days remaining in the year.
In Roman numerals, Sunday, March 16, 1687 is written as XVI.III.MDCLXXXVII (Day.Month.Year format).
The moon phase for this date is Waxing Crescent (approx. 7% illuminated). The astrological sun sign is Pisces.