Month March 1916 Calendar

About Month of March Calendar

• March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
  
  March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).

Historical Events for March, 1916

• Day of Week 8th » World War I: A British Empire known as British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
• Day of Week 9th » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in Battle of Columbus (1916) or an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• Day of Week 11th » USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
• Day of Week 15th » President of the United States or President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to Pancho Villa Expedition called pursue Pancho Villa.
• Day of Week 16th » The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
• Day of Week 20th » Albert Einstein publishes his general relativity named general theory of relativity.
• Day of Week 22nd » The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1916

• 4th » William Alland, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1997)
• 4th » Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
• 4th » Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 4th » Hans Eysenck, German-English psychologist (d. 1997)
• 4th » Michael Howard (comedian) called Michael Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
• 5th » Jack Hamm, American illustrator (d. 1996)
• 8th » John W. Seybold, American businessman (d. 2004)
• 10th » Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2000)
• 11th » Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (d. 1983)
• 11th » Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• 13th » Lindy Boggs, American politician (d. 2013)
• 14th » Horton Foote, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 15th » Frank Coghlan, Jr., American actor and pilot (d. 2009)
• 15th » Fadil Hoxha, Kosovar politician, 2nd President of Kosovo (d. 2001)
• 15th » Harry James, American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (d. 1983)
• 16th » Sapru (actor) known as Sapru, Indian actor (d. 1979)
• 16th » Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
• 16th » Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010)
• 19th » Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (d. 2000)
• 19th » Irving Wallace, American author (d. 1990)
• 20th » Pierre Messmer, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
• 21st » Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (d. 2006)
• 21st » Ken Wharton, English race car driver (d. 1957)
• 24th » Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American author (d. 2006)
• 24th » Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist (d. 2010)
• 25th » S. M. Pandit, Indian painter (d. 1993)
• 25th » Jean Rogers, American actress (d. 1991)
• 26th » Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 26th » Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)
• 26th » Sterling Hayden, American actor and author (d. 1986)
• 26th » Harry Rabinowitz, South African-American composer and conductor
• 27th » Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, German commander (d. 1945)
• 27th » Frank Pitelka, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
• 27th » Mario Tonelli, American football player (d. 2003)
• 29th » Peter Geach, English philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
• 29th » Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician (d. 2005)
• 31st » Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (d. 2012)
• 31st » John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 1979)

Famous Deaths for March 1916

• 4th » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 12th » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 19th » Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 20th » Ota Benga, Congolese-American model (b. 1884)
• 24th » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

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