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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_of_the_Latvian_Legionnaires" title="Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires">Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/934" title="934">934</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Dynasties_and_Ten_Kingdoms_period" title="Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period">Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period</a>: Chinese general <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Zhixiang" title="Meng Zhixiang">Meng Zhixiang</a></b> proclaimed himself emperor and established <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later_Shu" title="Later Shu">Later Shu</a> as a new state independent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later_Tang" title="Later Tang">Later Tang</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1689" title="1689">1689</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers">Royal Welch Fusiliers</a></b>, one of the oldest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">line-infantry</a> regiments of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a>, was founded.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1819" title="1819">1819</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_Savings_in_the_City_of_New-York" title="Bank for Savings in the City of New-York">Bank for Savings in the City of New-York</a></b>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_bank" title="Savings bank">savings bank</a> in New York City, was incorporated.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984" title="1984">1984</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley" title="William Francis Buckley">William Buckley</a></b>, the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> station chief in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>, Lebanon, was kidnapped by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalists</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stone_(loyalist)" title="Michael Stone (loyalist)">Michael Stone</a>, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">Ulster loyalist</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack" title="Milltown Cemetery attack">attacked the funeral</a></b> of three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional IRA</a> members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaric_Alexander_Watts" title="Alaric Alexander Watts">Alaric Alexander Watts</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1797); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blasingame" title="Don Blasingame">Don Blasingame</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1932); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Randolph" title="Virginia Randolph">Virginia Randolph</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1958); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bellette" title="Jean Bellette">Jean Bellette</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1991)</p>
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