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Saturday, March 16, 1850
Saturday, March 16, 1850 falls on a Saturday. It is day 75 of the year, ISO week 11, in Q1.
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Saturday, March 16
March 16, 1850 is day 75 of 365, ISO week 11, in Q1. The moon is Waxing Crescent and the zodiac sign is Pisces.
Day of year75
ISO week11
QuarterQ1
Days left290
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent
- Lunar age
- 2.9 days
- Illumination
- 9%
- Season
- Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
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- Pisces
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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Today's Celebrations
March 16
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Eusebia of Hamage
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Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)
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Heribert of Cologne
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Hilarius of Aquileia
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Jean de Brébeuf
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Blessed John Amias and Robert Dalby
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Julian of Antioch
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March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Daily Briefing
Local briefSaturday, March 16, 1850 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2015: 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.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to March 16.
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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.
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.
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.
A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.
Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.
William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
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Émilie Dequenne, Belgian actress (born 1981)
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Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (born 1941)
2019
Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)
2018
Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (born 1929)
2017
Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (born 1925)
2016
Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (born 1924)
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