16th March

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1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 - The first driving test pass slip was presented to Mr. R. Beene of Kensington, a pupil of the British School of Motoring. Tests were introduced on a voluntary basis and became compulsory in June.

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.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

1971 - The British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper announced his retirement after being defeated by Joe Bugner.
1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.

1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.

1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.

Births
1839 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1922)
1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
1951 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
1952 – Graham Cole, English actor
1954 – Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1960 – Jenny Eclair, English actress and author
1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen, American bass player (Van Halen)

Deaths
1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
1912 – Captain Lawrence Oates, a member the Terra Nova Expedition, left the tent saying “I am just going outside and may be some time”
2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)

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