1750
Mar 16, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 1st woman astronomer, was born in Hanover, Germany.

1833
Mar 16, Susan Hayhurst became the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college.

1912
Mar 16, Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, first lady (1968-75) to Richard Nixon, was born in Ely, Nevada.

1949
Mar 16, Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenement rights for urban women, was born.

1970
Mar 16, Forty-six women filed suit against Newsweek management for sex discrimination. On Aug 26 they signed an agreement with management. In September Lynn Povich became Newsweek’s first-ever female senior editor. In 2012 Povich authored “The Good Girls Revolt."

2005
Mar 16, UN peacekeepers charged that militiamen in northeast Congo grilled bodies on a spit and boiled two girls alive as their mothers watched, adding cannibalism to a list of atrocities allegedly carried out by Lendu warriors.

2006
Mar 16, Queen Elizabeth II arrived in the former British colony of Singapore for a two-day state visit.

2007
Mar 16, Former CIA operative Valerie Plame told a House committee that White House and State Department officials had "carelessly and recklessly" blown her cover in a politically motivated smear of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disputing President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear bomb.

2007
Mar 16, Laos confirmed its second human death from bird flu, a woman who died earlier this month, after results from a lab used by the World Health Organization (WHO).

2008
Mar 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged her country's "historical responsibility" to Israel as she opened a three-day visit marking the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state.

2009
Mar 16, In Iraq a 12-year-old girl was killed when American soldiers fired at a vehicle speeding toward them and Iraqi police near Mosul. The military said the girl was standing about 100 yards (meters) behind the vehicle and was struck by a round. In Baghdad a US soldier was fatally injured during combat operations.

2012
Mar 16, In California Sierra LaMar (15) was last seen at her home in Morgan Hill getting ready for school. On May 21 police arrested Antolin Garcia-Torres (21) in connection to the missing teen. His DNA was found on clothing in LaMar's bag recovered shortly after her disappearance. 2014 Garcia-Torres was charged with murder.

2013
Mar 16, In Pennsylvania a tour bus carrying a women’s lacrosse team from Seton Hill University crashed, killing a pregnant coach and the driver.