Talk:March 16

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March 16: Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires Cap badge of the Royal Welch Fusiliers 934 – Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. 1689 – The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded. 1819 – The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated. 1984 – William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. 1988 – Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others. Alaric Alexander Watts (b. 1797) Don Blasingame (b. 1932) Virginia Randolph (d. 1958) Jean Bellette (d. 1991) More anniversaries: March 15 March 16 March 17

Removed Entry

Removed this entry:

• 1900 yugoslaviansome bloke

...as it led only to a disambiguation page, and made absolutely no sense.80.47.208.218 (talk) 09:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

General Motors - Pontiac observation

There does not appear to be any truth or relevence for the entry:

• 1994 - General Motors should end the production of the Pontiac brand.

Please provide any support for this statement here, rather than on the main page.

Nigosh 01:27, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

AAA day is on december 9th according to this page, any further info?

70.181.8.74 14:17:16, 16 March 2007 (EST)

DJIA Point Changes

Regarding your blanket reversion of my additions to dates of record point changes in the DJIA with the comment "Regarding your comment that "Not every zig-zag of a single national stock exchange is worth noting," and, "Actually, it is (London, Tokyo, Paris?) and none of these are historic, merely transitory," I find your arguments to be disingenuous for the following reasons:

1. This is the English Language Wikipedia. A serious argument can be made that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the single most monitored stock index in the world, not just in the English language, and it is therefore specious to maintain that it is just "a single national stock exchange".
2. The entries I've made were for days in which the DJIA had achieved a record point change. These records are set only very infrequently. It's not that the market hit a record high; that kind of information becomes non-notable usually after a short period of time. These weren't just ordinary "zig-zags". These were days of large consequence to the world of corporate finance.
3. Prior to my additions, there were existing precedences for inclusion of the same kind of material, including September 29, October 19, October 27, and October 13. Arbitrary inclusion of some of these and not others seems non-encyclopedic.
4. Just because these dates are not memorable for you now does not mean that they were not notable at the time.
5. Your actions are of someone who thinks they WP:OWN these articles. If you disagree with the change, it is more proper to talk about them prior to their removal unless the content addition blatantly doesn't belong.

—  X  S  G  10:03, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Since this issue is affecting multiple articles, for now the conversation is at User talk:XSG. —  X  S  G  10:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Fictional birthday

Robby (Kim Possible) is a fictional character born on March 16 but there is no year given, is there anywhere to list fictional characters like this or people of unspecified birth years? Tyciol (talk) 18:19, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Benito Juarez's birthday

Today (16 March 2015) is a statutory holiday in Mexico, celebrating the birthday of Benito Juarez; it is observed in Mexico on the third Monday of March. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.249.77.3 (talk • contribs)

If the observation is not a fixed day, it should be listed in the month page. I added it to March page. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

David Low

It says here he died 15 March not 16 March http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903469.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.203.42.50 (talk) 11:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Magellan's circumnavigation

It's the 500th anniversary of Magellan reaching the Philippines... the people of this project wanted something Philippine-related. This is it. Howard the Duck (talk) 04:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)