📜 This Day in History

March 16

• 597 BCBabylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
• 1621Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English.
• 1819The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated.
• 1960African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
• 1988Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
• 2015Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were fired as judges on the second series of The X Factor New Zealand, following public backlash over comments they made to a contestant during the first live show.

Born on this day

• 1751James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)
• 1839Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
• 1953Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer
• 1959Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway, 13th Secretary General of NATO