What Day of the Week

March 16, 2020 was the 76^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 290 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1521

  Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
• 1792

  King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
• 1865

  American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
• 1912

  Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
• 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.
• 1945

  Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
• 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.
• 1968

  Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• 1983

  Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.

• 1631

  René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
• 1800

  Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
• 1845

  Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928)
• 1856

  Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
• 1869

  F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
• 1918

  Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1928

  Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
• 1984

  Levi Brown, American football player
• 1986

  Joe Denly, English cricketer
• 1987

  Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model

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